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...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 the prophetic cell:" which Dr. Newton calls an allowable allusion in a young poet, while Warton defends and praises it in...

...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 the prophetic cell:" which Dr. Newton calls an allowable allusion in a young poet, while Warton defends and praises it in...

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...hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, 178 Swinges] See Cowley's Davideis, p. 313. ' Pectora turn longs percellit verbere cauda:.' A voice...

...winged beauties, and sends them floating away into dissolution with their white bodies out of the woods. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum. Runs...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. The lonely mountains o'er. And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and...

...Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the step of Delphos cleaving: No mighty trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eye'd priest from the prophetic cell. *•**•• Nor is Osiris seen In Memphian grove or green, Trampling the unshorn grass with lowings...

...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...o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping beard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius ia...