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
| Moyle Sherer - Egypt - 1825 - 454 pages
...rocky roof to view, and was now reflected from these waters on which the sun-beam never plays : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving." The day looks doubly bright when you again go forth, and you ride to a beautifully-broken fringed ruin... | |
| Moyle Sherer - Egypt - 1825 - 454 pages
...rocky roof to view, and was now reflected from these waters on which the sun-beam never plays:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving." The day looks doubly bright when you again go forth, and you ride to a beautifully-broken fringed ruin... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. 19. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. 20. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...Anglo-Saxon, Smolt, hot weather. T. WARTON. The oracles are dumb, XIX. No voice or hideous hum 174 Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, strong image is copied from the descriptions of serpents and dragons in the old Romances and Ariosto.... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, [cell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding... | |
| Medicine - 1840 - 664 pages
...oracles ceased to prescribe — , No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro1 the arched roof, with strains deceiving; Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine,...With hollow shriek, the steep of Delphos leaving. Bacon was anticipated, for induction was applied to physic — and the genius of Hippocrates stamped... | |
| Congregational churches - 1829 - 704 pages
...gods too, dwelt quietly as brothers. But no sooner did Christianity come in, than what an uproar ! Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphoa leaving. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice battered god of Palestine... | |
| Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving, No...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic celL" Diocletian, in his rage, ordered all in his palace to sacrifice to the Gods, and all... | |
| Walter Scott - Demonology - 1830 - 374 pages
...his earlier pieces, the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and... | |
| University of Cambridge - Classical education - 1830 - 636 pages
...тгрш<твш. Into Greek Tragic Iambics. The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely... | |
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