 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...  Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History - Page 175by Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1840 - 360 pages
...constituted the system of heathen worship, at the birth of our Redeemer! — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 pages
...Milton in his magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the... | |
 | William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 pages
...Nativity," thus enlarges with inimitable beauty on the same subject:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 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...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1841 - 312 pages
...fact, than that he believed all the incidents in. his Paradise Lost. "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 pages
...has mentioned the birth of Christ as fatal to this ancient delusion. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof in words...shrine Can no more divine With 'hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«yed priest from... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice | s ep 4 ahrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphoe leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed... | |
 | 1841 - 436 pages
...my hand:— " The Oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runi through the arched roof with word* deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving ; No nightly trance, or breathrd spell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest in his... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
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