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 Family Library (Harper). - Page 601845Full view - About this book
| Horatio Balch Hackett - Bible - 1852 - 432 pages
...which St. Paul sailed of old." — Travels in Lycia by Spratt and Forbes, Vol. I. р. 31. Лpо11о from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." V. 2. The party take now another vessel. We are not informed of the reason for this measure. The vessel... | |
| Christmas - 1852 - 232 pages
...tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arehed roof in words deeeiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale- eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voiee... | |
| George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1852 - 346 pages
...deceiving. Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. Apollo from his shrine, No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand: The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne.... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour 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, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour 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 - 1853 - 344 pages
...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. JSTo nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, isi And the resounding shore, 172 Swinges] See Cowley's Davideis, p.... | |
| Robert Turnbull - Church history - 1854 - 554 pages
...change thence to be wrought not only in the person of Christ, but in the ejitire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 578 pages
...images remained, the divinities themselves had departed. " The oracles arc dumb, No voice or hideons hum Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving....Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." This, so far as we can learn, is very much the present state of things among the independent nations... | |
| Robert Turnbull - Church history - 1854 - 546 pages
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His... | |
| Robert Turnbull - Church history - 1854 - 560 pages
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, • Hath left in shadows dread... | |
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