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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... "
Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings with the Poets - Page 63
by Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 376 pages
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...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, 178...
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Sacred poetry: consisting of selections from the works of the most admired ...

Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Ssrindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumh, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavirg. "No nightly trance or hreathed spell Inspires the pale eyed priest from the prophetic cell....
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft: Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq

Walter Scott - Demonology - 1833 - 360 pages
...his earlier pieces, the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. 11 The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell 1' The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ;...
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Lives of Scottish Worthies, Volume 3

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1833 - 378 pages
...and unholy mysteries which constituted the system of heathen worship, at the birth of our Redeemer : The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From...
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Leigh Hunt's London Journal, Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...winged beauties, and sends them floating away into dissolution with their white bodies out of the woods. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum. Runs...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. The lonely mountains o'er. And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...The oracles are dumb, !\n 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. 180 The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...
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Sacred Classics, Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity, Volume 21

Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...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...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 1

Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 400 pages
...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...
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Walter Scott - Demonology - 1836 - 356 pages
...pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum RUM through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo...the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted...
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

Walter Scott - Demonology - 1836 - 358 pages
...pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Bum through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell 41 The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ;...
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