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... Paradise Lost - Page xviby John Milton - 1851 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1864 - 868 pages
..."The oracles arc 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 from the prophetic cell." If this be true, it... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...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, 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 lonely mountains... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...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, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavin" ODES. 287 With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...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-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...tail. 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-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...tail. 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 from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. 175 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spelt Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. IBQ XX. The lonely... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...19. 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-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. 20. The lonely mountains... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...bound, 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, [cell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic The lonely mountains... | |
| Medicine - 1840 - 664 pages
...to prescribe — , No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro1 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 of Hippocrates stamped... | |
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