 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
 | James Boaden - 1833 - 402 pages
...the blaze with the departing evil spirits, of whom play-houses are the proverbial habitations : — " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving ; A voice of weeping heard and loud lament, The parting Genius is with sighing sent." At this time,... | |
 | James Boaden - 1833 - 400 pages
...the blaze with the departing eVil spirits, of whom play-houses are the proverbial habitations : — " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving ; A voice of weeping heard and loud lament, The parting Genius is with sighing sent." At this time,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, !\n voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. 175 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 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...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, A voice... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 400 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...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, A voice... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1836 - 356 pages
...pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum RUM through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 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 through the arched roof in words deceir. ing. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow sh riek the steep of Delphos leaving.... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 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...roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can DO more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos lenvim- ; No nightly trance or breathed spell... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. 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. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1838 - 140 pages
...Milton's glorious " Hymn on the Nativity,"* of which I shall quote the first and two concluding stanzas: The oracles are dumb, No voice, or hideous hum, Runs through the arch'd roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the... | |
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