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
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb ; No voice steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-cy'd priest from... | |
| 1847 - 488 pages
...where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " 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... | |
| Robert Mushet - 1847 - 524 pages
...greatest poet, in language full of music, and poetry truly divine, — " The oracles are dumb : No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words...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 from... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 352 pages
...That noble poem, 1 Compare, particularly, the following stanza: — " 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... | |
| 1847 - 482 pages
...where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " 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... | |
| 1852 - 788 pages
...coming, and their idols were marred and mutilated. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hnm Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving....shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. " Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 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...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... | |
| James Pillans - 1847 - 300 pages
...Delphis oracula cessant — Jüv. vi. 555. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. — MILT. ODE ON THE NATIVITY. 38 Meleagream maculatus sanguine Nesei Evenog... | |
| Charles Knight - 1847 - 620 pages
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