 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 priest...  The Churchman's companion - Pagina 2811852Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1864 - 868 pagini
...of Christ. In his song of the Nativity, he sings — "The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving :...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." If this... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pagini
...fail, Swindges the scaly honour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving, No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX. The... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pagini
...fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavin" ODES. 287 With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pagini
...horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched mnf in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphos leavNo nightly trance, or breathed spell, [ing. Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pagini
...fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. 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, : . No nightly trauce, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX.... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pagini
...Swindles the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum , Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine 176 Con no more divine, So nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«y'd priest from the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pagini
...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 deceiving :...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pagini
...made of the presumed annihilation of these prophecies at the nativity of our Saviour, in his ode: " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the sleep of Dclphos leaving; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pagini
...made of the presumed annihilation of these prophecies at the nativity of our Saviour, in his ode: " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the sleep of Dclphos leaving; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pagini
...fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely... | |
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