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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... "
Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson - Page 195
by Henry Reed - 1860 - 387 pages
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Paradise regain'd, a poem. To which is added Samson agonistes; and Poems ...

John Milton - 1747 - 240 pages
...fee his Kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly Horrour of his folded tail, xIx. The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving s Aftllt from his fhrinc Can no more divine, With hollow fliriek the fteep of Dttfbet leaving. No nightly...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - 1753 - 374 pages
...to fee his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his mrine 176 Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leivinp-. o t. r No nightly trance,...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1753 - 418 pages
...wroth to fee his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. The orac|es are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine ijfa Oil) no more divine, Y^ifb. hollow fhriek the ileep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance,...
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An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...exercife, pag. 9. in all which are to be found many firokcs of the fublime. The The oracles are dumb, * No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving j No nightly trance, or breathed fpell, Infpires the pale-ey'd prieft from the prophetic cell. Such...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson ...

John Milton - 1759 - 420 pages
...to fee his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Z 2 Apollo L • Apollo from his fhrine 176 Can no more divine, • With hollow fhriek the fteep of...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...air of folemnity, and enthufiafm, that reigns in the following ftanzas : \ The oracles are dumb *, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; No nightly trance, or breathed fpell, Infpires the pale-ey'd prieft from the prophetic celj. Such...
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 pages
...to fee his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed...
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Illustrations of Euripides, on the Ion and the Bacchae, Volume 1

Richard Paul Jodrell - 1781 - 286 pages
...againft herfelf. But now, in thofc appofite and beautiful lines of Milton, The Oracles are dumb, No voice, or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his fhrine Can no more divine With hollow ftiriek the fleep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance, or...
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Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin

John Milton - 1785 - 698 pages
...indignation and revenge, in brandiihing the horrid folds of his fcaly tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine 176 Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance,...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 12

English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...to fee his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed...
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