 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...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Seite 390von John Milton - 1925 - 554 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 348 Seiten
...description of the origin of its multitudinous gods looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land, The dreadful Infant's hand. The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn.... | |
 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 Seiten
...These shall become a heavy weight When time swings wide his outward gate EXERCISE CV1. CHRISTMAS HYMN. The oracles are dumb, No voice, or hideous hum, Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell : The lonely mountains o'er, and the resounding shore : A... | |
 | 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,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land, The dreadful Infant's hand. The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn.... | |
 | 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,...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and... | |
 | 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 - 396 Seiten
...Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof, in worda deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah'a land, The dreadful Infant's band. The rays of Bethlehem blind his duaky eyn.... | |
 | 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...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 larnant; From... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rnns B * pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 694 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... | |
 | Horatio Balch Hackett - 1852 - 446 Seiten
...sailed of old." — Travels in Lycia by Spratt and Forbes, Vol. I. p. 31. cHAP. XXI. 1-3.] NOTES. 295 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." V. 2. The party take now another vessel. We are not informed of the reason for this measure. The vessel... | |
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