 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...the arched roof in words deceir. ing. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow sh riek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...his earlier pieces, the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can DO more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos lenvim- ; No nightly trance or breathed spell... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. 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. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. 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. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1840 - 360 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...is beautifully described by Milton in his magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...leaving. 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... | |
 | William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 pages
...Milton, in his Hymn on " The Nativity," thus enlarges with inimitable beauty on the same subject:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 290 pages
...magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Euns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...leaving. 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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1841 - 312 pages
...he was convinced of this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in. his Paradise Lost. "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...Milton, the noble christian poet, has mentioned the birth of Christ as fatal to this ancient delusion. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs...With 'hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the... | |
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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... 
