 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
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 546 pages
...eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rons through the arch'd roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priests from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of... | |
 | Henry Fuseli - Art - 1831 - 472 pages
...fell. Book IV. v. 549, 560. HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. PICTURE XXIX. MARY and JESUS. The ruin of Paganism. The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, &c. The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn; The brutish Gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 pages
...fell. Book IV. v. 549, 560. HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. PICTUKE XXIX. MARY and JESUS. The ruin of Paganism. The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, &c. The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn; The brutish Gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...represent on the stage things past; I do believe them little more than things to come. Some have been of my Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving Apollo...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nighly trance or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...his usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 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 loud... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...that he was convinced of this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in his Paradise Lost. "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 loud... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, 178... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Ssrindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumh, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavirg. "No nightly trance or hreathed spell Inspires the pale eyed priest from the prophetic cell.... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...he was convinced of this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in his Paradise Lost. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. 252 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1833 - 378 pages
...and unholy mysteries which constituted the system of heathen worship, at the birth of our Redeemer : The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From... | |
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