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 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...*fo voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. \pollo from his shrine -an no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...that oracles ceased at the birth of Christ. In his song of the Nativity, he sings — "The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." If this be true, it is also certain that one possessed of a spirit of Python lived and practised divination... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...usurped sway; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly honour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...arebed roof in words deceiving. 175 Apolto from his sbrine Can "o more divine, With hollow sbriek. the steep of Delphos leaving No nightly trance. or breathed spell, Inspires the jwle.ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. 19* XX. Thr lonely monntains oVr, And the irsonn'ling shore,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...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...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, A voice... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With.hollo w shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell . VOL. III. M The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 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...No' nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell, iso XX. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore,... | |
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