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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... "
Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ... - Page 332
edited by - 1847
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The Sacred Poets of England and America: For Three Centuries

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...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,...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...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 79

Questions and answers - 1889 - 670 pages
...the advent of Christ silenced the devils who, in the disguiee of gode, had been uttering oracles:— The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. E. YAHDLEY. (7'b 8. vii. 229.) A flattering painter who, &c. (not " An advocate skilful"). Goldsmith's...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City ...

Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Lincoln (England) - 1850 - 530 pages
...ever. " 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,...The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek...
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Modern Literature and Literary Men: Being a Second Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 396 pages
...execrations so sublime : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words, deceiving Apollo from his shrine, Can...leaving. 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...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City ...

1850 - 538 pages
...for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far easts his usurped sway; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail,...The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City ...

Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Lincoln (England) - 1850 - 578 pages
...for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far caste his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail,...tail. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Buns thro' the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...
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Notes for Latin Lyrics

Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...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...
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The Bards of the Bible

George Gilfillan - Bible - 1851 - 348 pages
...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...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...
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A First Gallery of Literary Portraits, Volume 1

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1851 - 316 pages
...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...leaving. 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...
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Christmas with the Poets: A Collection of Songs, Carols, and Descriptive ...

Bevelled edge boards (Binding) - 1851 - 216 pages
...and perfect is, Rut now begins ; for, from this happy day, The old Dragon under ground, In straitcr limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway...are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arehed roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep...
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