...devils who, in the disguiee of gode, had been uttering oracles:— 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. E. YAHDLEY. (7'b 8. vii. 229.) A flattering painter who, &c. (not " An advocate...

...'gods' of earth, he uses effects of sound in a very different way. xix 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...

...purposes. Milton, in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', had written, 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...

...antra', etc., Milton. On the Moruing of Cheist's .\ativity, 173 ff. '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'. See further HW Parke and DEW Wormell. The Delphic Oearle ;Oxford, 1956),...

...Apollo in his poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Oracles are dum, No voice or hideous humm Runs 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...

...new prophet-poets, will draw their inspiration from Christian divinity, not from Apollo at Delphos: 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-ey'd Priest from...

...horror of his folded tail. 7541 '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. 7542 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' So when the sun in bed. Curtained...

...Christ is born in Bethlehem, as Milton envisions it in a famous ode, 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." Here the advent of Christ manifests itself, among other things, as a transformation...

...the God of Scripture. One stanza from the Ode suffices to illustrate: 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 Delphus leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from...

...verses to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" is striking: "The oracles are dumh, / 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." 13. See, eg, Hopscotch, chapter 1 8. where Oliveira exclaims: "ieh Cartesius...