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 Complete Poetical Works of John Milton - Sayfa 484John Milton tarafından - 1892 - 618 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| George Gilfillan - 1851 - 348 sayfa
...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, Runs...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.... | |
| Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 sayfa
...These shall become a heavy weight When time swings wide his outward gate EXERCISE CV1. CHRISTMAS HYMN. 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... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1851 - 398 sayfa
...looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Ruus through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo,...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.... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 sayfa
...Bending one way their precious influence ; * . * * , The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo,...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and... | |
| Samuel Warren - 1851 - 270 sayfa
...the radiant past! — Of Marathon and Salamis! of wisdom, eloquence, and song — all silenced now. The Oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum runs...divine, with hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. What fates were hers, since Japheth's son set foot upon her soil — Javan, to Otho!* — Marathon,... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1851 - 396 sayfa
...Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof, in worda deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah'a land, The dreadful Infant's band. The rays of Bethlehem blind his duaky eyn.... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 sayfa
...to embody forth in words the most lofty ideas. " 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. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud larnant; From... | |
| 1852 - 874 sayfa
...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rnns B * pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| Horatio Balch Hackett - 1852 - 446 sayfa
...sailed of old." — Travels in Lycia by Spratt and Forbes, Vol. I. p. 31. cHAP. XXI. 1-3.] NOTES. 295 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...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... | |
| William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 sayfa
...Milton celebrate these desolations : — "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rons thro" the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd prieat from the prophetic cell Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered... | |
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