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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... "
Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History - Page 175
by Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pages
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

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...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 50

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...
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The Book of Symbols: A Series of Seventy-five Short Essays on Morals ...

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 79

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 578 pages
...chant that will remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — ' 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...
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Bishop Jeremy Taylor, His Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors: A ...

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...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 50

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...
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 11

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...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

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...
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Outlines of geography, principally ancient [by J. Pillans].

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...
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4

Charles Knight - 1847 - 620 pages
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