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
| 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... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 344 pages
...Compare, particularly, the following stanza: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely have been unknown to Taylor. From this chapter,... | |
| 1840 - 652 pages
...oracles ceased to prescribe — No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro' 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...tail* The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Uuns through the arched roof in words de№¡nn£ gire them all the lie. Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it steep of Delphos learutf. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 348 pages
...particularly, the following stanza: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the archdd roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely have been unknown to Taylor. From this chapter,... | |
| Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...passed away. CHAP XIII. THE WITCH OF ENDOR. " The oracles are dumb ! No voice or hideous hum Rings 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-eyed priest from the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 356 pages
...eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles nre dumb, No voice nr hideous hmn Runs through the archrd roof in words deceiving, Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, Wilh hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving; No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb ; No voice q 0 steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell. Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from... | |
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