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" The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest... "
The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 405
by John Milton - 1857 - 570 pages
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Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and ..., Volume 2

John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires th« pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...
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The National Magazine, Volume 3

Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...scaly horror of his folded tail. '''Ih- Вahе yel li*s in Imilbig infaney." " The oracles are dumh, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or hreathed spell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er,...
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Christ in History: Or, The Central Power Among Men

Robert Turnbull - Church history - 1854 - 554 pages
...wrought not only in the person of Christ, but in the ejitire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His...
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The North American Review, Volume 78

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 578 pages
...images remained, the divinities themselves had departed. " The oracles arc dumb, No voice or hideons hum Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving....Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." This, so far as we can learn, is very much the present state of things among the independent nations...
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Christ in History: Or, The Central Power Among Men

Robert Turnbull - Church history - 1854 - 546 pages
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His...
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Christ in History: Or, The Central Power Among Men

Robert Turnbull - Church history - 1854 - 560 pages
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, • Hath left in shadows dread...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the ...

John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded taiL The oracles are dumb, 1 No voice or hideous hum TCTXRuns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard 2 and loud lament; 1 Alluding to the belief entertained by many of the Fathers, that tha oracles...
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Lectures on English literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...cry heard from the manger at Bethlehem throughout the spiritual universe : " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic celL The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard and loud lament From haunted...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From...
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The Age of Fable, Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...the heathen idols at the advent of the Savior. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." In Cowper's poem of Yardley Oak there are some beautiful mythological allusions. The former of the...
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