| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 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.hollo w shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. 175 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spelt Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. IBQ XX.... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine 176 Can no more divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightlv trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. XX. The... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...the scaly horrour of his folded tail. 19. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. 20. The... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...Smolt, hot weather. T. WARTON. The oracles are dumb, XIX. No voice or hideous hum 174 Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, strong image is copied from the descriptions of serpents and dragons in the old Romances and Ariosto.... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, [cell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic The lonely... | |
| 1840 - 664 pages
...oracles ceased to prescribe — , No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro1 the arched roof, with strains deceiving; Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine,...With hollow shriek, the steep of Delphos leaving. Bacon was anticipated, for induction was applied to physic — and the genius of Hippocrates stamped... | |
| 1829 - 704 pages
...gods too, dwelt quietly as brothers. But no sooner did Christianity come in, than what an uproar ! Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphoa leaving. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice battered god of Palestine... | |
| Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...forehead the sign of the cross" — strong testimony that he believed what Milton poetically supposed: " The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving, No nightly trance or breathed spell, Inspires the... | |
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