...And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. The oracles2 are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping3 heard and loud lament : From...

...description of the origin of its multitudinous gods look tame beside the mighty lines of Milton :— " The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Runs...shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...

...description of the origin of its multitudinous gods look tame beside the mighty lines of Milton : " The oracles are dumb : No voice or hideous hum Runs...shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...

...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become dead to the great truths their religion embodied. They had sunk the...

...actions. But now, says our greatest poet, in language full of music, and poetry truly divine, — " The oracles are dumb : No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." 1 0. Porphyry, one of the deepest of the mystic school, in a curious passage, has presented to us another...

...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become dead to the great truths their religion embodied. They had sunk the...

...Morning of our Lord's Nativity.1 That noble poem, 1 Compare, particularly, the following stanza: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely have been unknown to Taylor. From this chapter,...

...discomfiture of paganism in a chant that will remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — 4 The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.' 182 Bishop Newton, in a note on this passage, remarks that Milton ' builds on the common hypothesis...

...discomfiture of paganism in a chant that will remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — ' The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.' 182 Bishop Newton, in a note on this passage, remarks lhat Milton ' builds on the common hypothesis...

...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...