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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 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 ...
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| Title | Deliciae literariae: a new volume of table-talk [ed. by J. Robertson]. |
| Author | Deliciae |
| Editor | Joseph Robertson |
| Published | 1840 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 2 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 273 pages |
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