 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...  Leigh Hunt's London Journal - Page 84edited by - 1834 - 248 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...Smolt, hot 'weather. •• 178. Swiniigcs the fcaly terrour of bis folded tail.] This ftrong M mz image The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine 176 Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1802 - 332 pages
...vomit out the fringing crowd, ii. jfio. V. 8 1. — her arched roofs] Milton's Hymn on the- Nativity : No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. St. 19. Lo, this her genuine lore. — Nor thou refufe This humble prefent of no partial Mufe From... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the sculy horror of his folded tail. The oracles arc dumb, *fo voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. \pollo from his shrine -an no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...that oracles ceased at the birth of Christ. In his song of the Nativity, he sings — "The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." If this be true, it is also certain that one possessed of a spirit of Python lived... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 456 pages
...doftor Newton's inftances, Fcter. Qu. I. vii. 13. Swindges the fcaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. 175 Apollo from his fhrine Can no more divine, Ver. 172. Swindges the fcaly horrour of his folded tail.]... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...usurped sway; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly honour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavin" ODES. 287 With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...usurped sway; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, : . No nightly trauce, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...his usurped sway j And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched mnf in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...usurped sway ; 179 And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindles the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum , Runs...arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine 176 Con no more divine, So nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«y'd priest from the... | |
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