 | Samuel Warren - 1851 - 270 Seiten
...the radiant past! — Of Marathon and Salamis! of wisdom, eloquence, and song — all silenced now. The Oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum runs...divine, with hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. What fates were hers, since Japheth's son set foot upon her soil — Javan, to Otho!* — Marathon,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 398 Seiten
...looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Ruus through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo,...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land, The dreadful Infant's hand. The... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 Seiten
...Bending one way their precious influence ; * . * * , The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo,...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 Seiten
...•• •• And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound,...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... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 232 Seiten
...throne. And then at last our bliss, Full and perfeet is, 13 ut now begins ; for from this happy day, The old dragon under ground, In straiter limits bound,...tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arehed roof in words deeeiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...spread his And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, Rnns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 Seiten
...to embody forth in words the most lofty ideas. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 Seiten
...Milton celebrate these desolations : — "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rons thro" the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd prieat from the prophetic cell Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 236 Seiten
...throne. And then at last our bliss, Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for from this happy day, The old dragon under ground, In straiter limits bound,...; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the sealy horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arehed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...day. The old dragon, under ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped eway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly...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... | |
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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... 
