 | 1846 - 436 pages
...lines of Milton : — * The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous bum Buna through the arched roof iu words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become dead to the great truths their religion embodied. They... | |
 | John Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...appropriate Milton to Keats's own purposes. Milton, in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', had written, The oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum Runs...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. (lines 173-80) This is a plangent but strongly ironic account of Christ's birth displacing... | |
 | Publius Papinius Statius - Literary Collections - 1991 - 288 pages
...Delphica damnatis tacuerunt sortibus antra', etc., Milton. On the Moruing of Cheist's .\ativity, 173 ff. 'The oracles are dumb. , No voice or hideous hum /...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving'. See further HW Parke and DEW Wormell. The Delphic Oearle ;Oxford, 1956), i. 287 ff. 514 f. Juno's patronage... | |
 | Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 240 pages
...Apollo in his poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Oracles are dum, No voice or hideous humm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. 93 Petrarch was inclined rather to the judgment of Lucan:... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...No voice or hideous hum Suns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine C?n no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos...breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Illustrative. Spenser, Faerie Queene, 1, 2, 2; 1, 2, 29; 1, 11, 31 ; 1, 12, 2. Sir... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...new prophet-poets, will draw their inspiration from Christian divinity, not from Apollo at Delphos: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. (lines 176-80) It is a beautiful, haunting picture of loss.... | |
 | David Haley - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 316 pages
...of Christ. Milton alludes to the Plutarchan event in his ode "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. . . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Christ's Nativity' Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 7541 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 7542 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' So when the sun in bed. Curtained with cloudy red. Pillows... | |
 | Longxi Zhang - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 268 pages
...obsolete on the other. The moment Christ is born in Bethlehem, as Milton envisions it in a famous ode, The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." Here the advent of Christ manifests itself, among other things, as a transformation of language, for... | |
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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... 
