...roof, with words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell."0 Jugglery and priestcraft may have had full play in the cave of Trophonius, but not so in ancient...

...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb,1 No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard3 and loud lament;...

...echoes still prolongs each heavenly rloip. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. XX. The lonely mountains o'er Arid the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard ami loud lament ;...

...The air, such pleasures loath to lose, With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ;...

...XIX. The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. i Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. i I xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament;...

...approached its shrine ! How soon after thia could it be said, in the words of Milton's Hymn on the Nativity, — ' The oracles are dumb, No voice or...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." ship, and the disciples of Tyre returned home again. Acts xxi. 2 — 6. Southerly course to Ptolemais...

...description of the origin of its multitudinous gods looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, •...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 eyn....

...words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From...

...true, it was not mere poetry that led Milton to attribute such results to Messiah's incarnation :— " The oracles are dumb ; no voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." But we think that superior sagacity and practised skill in an age of general superstition; that deep...

...The air, such pleasures loath to lose, With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly close. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ;...