 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...poem that are about the pagan 'gods' of earth, he uses effects of sound in a very different way. xix 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. Here the rhythm is much less complex and hesitant: Milton... | |
 | John Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...appropriate Milton to Keats's own purposes. Milton, in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', had written, 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. (lines 173-80) This is a plangent but strongly ironic account... | |
 | Publius Papinius Statius - Literary Collections - 1991 - 288 pages
...Delphica damnatis tacuerunt sortibus antra', etc., Milton. On the Moruing of Cheist's .\ativity, 173 ff. 'The oracles are dumb. , No voice or hideous hum /...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving'. See further HW Parke and DEW Wormell. The Delphic Oearle ;Oxford, 1956), i. 287 ff. 514 f. Juno's patronage... | |
 | Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 240 pages
...Apollo in his poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Oracles are dum, No voice or hideous humm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. 93 Petrarch was inclined rather to the judgment of Lucan:... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...our bliss Full and perfect is. But now begins; for from this happy day The old Dragon underground. Colvill, 0 sairer, sail IT akes my head; And sairer,...you be dead. (1. 33—36) EnSB; ESPB; FaBoBa; GBP; (1. 137-144) 41 But see, the Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest: Time is our tedious song should... | |
 | John Charles Hawley - Religion - 1994 - 264 pages
...his 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,...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. (Milton 1971a: II. 149-172) The imaginative leap to the last trumpet, followed by a return to the present,... | |
 | Longxi Zhang - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 268 pages
...obsolete on the other. The moment Christ is born in Bethlehem, as Milton envisions it in a famous ode, The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." Here the advent of Christ manifests itself, among other things, as a transformation of language, for... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Christ's Nativity' Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 7541 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 7542 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' So when the sun in bed. Curtained with cloudy red. Pillows... | |
 | James Chandler - History - 1999 - 616 pages
...the fulfillment of the plan of the God of Scripture. One stanza from the Ode suffices to illustrate: The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphus leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 456 pages
...magnus mihi donat Apollo" ("Great Apollo taught me to foresee the future")—Horace, Satires 2.5.60. 3. "The oracles are dumb, / No voice or hideous hum /...shrine / Can no more divine, / With hollow shriek the step of Delphos leaving. /No nightly trance or breathed spell, / Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
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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... 
