 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...  Table-talk of John Selden - Page 98by John Selden - 1856 - 170 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Oliver - Freemasons - 1843 - 396 pages
...Orac. And our own Milton says : — The oracles are dumb ; No Toice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo, from his...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. the Temple... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From... | |
 | Plutarch - Punishment - 1844 - 188 pages
...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...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale•eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 5. ei... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Church and state - 1844 - 206 pages
...unchristian as those of Paganism itself. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine,...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving, No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. In consecrated... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The... | |
 | American literature - 1856 - 606 pages
...— " All silenced now ! — " The oracles are dumb : " No voice or hideous hum " Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : " Apollo from his..." 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... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - Classical literature - 1844 - 458 pages
...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... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - American literature - 1845 - 448 pages
...nobly, in his hymn on the Nativity : " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Rune through the arche'd roof in words deceiving, Apollo from his shrine...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... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 356 pages
...eve of the blessed Nativity. •, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo from his shrine...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving; No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell " The lonely... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pages
...any thing even in his later works : "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving ; No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely... | |
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