 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 Quarterly Review - Page 181edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...arebed roof in words deceiving. 175 Apolto from his sbrine Can "o more divine, With hollow sbriek. the steep of Delphos leaving No nightly trance. or breathed spell, Inspires the jwle.ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. 19* XX. Thr lonely monntains oVr, And the irsonn'ling shore,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges 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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...made of the presumed annihilation of these prophecies at the nativity of our Saviour, in his ode: " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the sleep of Dclphos leaving; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...made of the presumed annihilation of these prophecies at the nativity of our Saviour, in his ode: " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the sleep of Dclphos leaving; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pages
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour 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 priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With.hollo w shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and lond lament ; From... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. -175 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...No' nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell, iso XX. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...usurped sway, 170 And, wroth to see his kingdom fail. Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine 176 Can no more divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightlv trance, or breathed... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...description of the old dragon: The tmouldring dust did round about an^ no wonder Milton was fond XIX. The oracles are dumb, No 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... | |
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