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 Southern Quarterly Review - Страница 310под редакцията на - 1845Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| 1841 - 436 страници
...my hand:— " The Oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runi through the arched roof with word* deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine....the steep of Delphos leaving ; No nightly trance, or breathrd spell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest in his prophetic cell." A louder thunder has been heard... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 страници
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. ohn Aikin ahrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphoe leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 страници
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament... | |
| George Oliver - 1843 - 396 страници
...Suidas, voce Delphi. Plut. Defect. Orac. And our own Milton says : — The oracles are dumb ; No Toice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, in words...spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. the Temple of Jerusalem. The miraculous interposition of heaven to prevent the execution of this... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 страници
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail. Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From... | |
| 1843 - 678 страници
...work, for it had a divine commission and Godspeed. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hnm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can now no more divine, With hollow shriek the step of Delphos leaving." Dimmer and dimmer, as the generations... | |
| 1843 - 708 страници
...lived after them, and wrought out its appointed work, for it had a divine commission and Godspeed. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the archéd roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine Can now no more divine, With hollow shriek... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 страници
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 206 страници
...of Romanism trembled in the midst of services as quaint and unchristian as those of Paganism itself. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint... | |
| Plutarch - 1844 - 188 страници
...of the Saviour's advent, as follows : The oraclea are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through ihe arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine...Inspires the pale•eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 5. ei fi&tiov .... fiiov, though it may refer to moral conduct, can also be understood of worldly... | |
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