...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...

...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...

...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...breathed 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...

...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...breathed 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...

...savage deities might well be silent. Milton embodies the idea very nobly, in his hymn on the Nativity : "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." The genius of the Christian faith had as effectually cowed that of the Aztec religion, as that of Cortes...

...radiant past ! " Of Marathon and Salamis 1 of wisdom, eloquence and song — " All silenced now ! — " The oracles are dumb : " No voice or hideous hum "..." With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. " What fates were hers, since Japheth's son set foot npon her soil — " Javan to Otho I " Marathon...

...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...breathed spell, 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...

...poetical than exact. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof with words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more...divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. But the two cliffs of the overhanging steep, the clear stream which issues from the huge cleft that...

...Nativity. The spirit and tone of Milton's lines are scarce surpassed by any thing even in his later works : "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...breathed 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...

...earlier pieces, the departure of these pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. •, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...breathed 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...