 | 1864 - 868 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...anthems dark, The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his worship'd ark. He feels from Juda's land The dreaded Infant's hand, The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne; Nor all the gods beside , Longer dare abide, So, when the sim in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...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, or breathed...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and lond lament ; From... | |
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving, No nightly trance or breathed...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic celL" Diocletian, in his rage, ordered all in his palace to sacrifice to the Gods, and all soldiers in all... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1830 - 374 pages
...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...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 lament ; From... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nighly trance or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the Nativity. ' In his oracle to Augustus. opinion, and endeavour to write the history of their... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...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...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 lament ; From... | |
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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... 
