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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... "
Table-talk of John Selden - Page 98
by John Selden - 1856 - 170 pages
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...weltering waves their oozy channel keep. The oracles2 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...
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A Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 484 pages
...beside the mighty lines of Milton :— " 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 sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine, Volume 2

1846 - 586 pages
...beside the mighty lines of Milton : — * The, oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightiy trance or breathed spelt Inspire» the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Sketches of Modern Literature, and Eminent Literary Men ...

George Gilfillan - Authors - 1846 - 508 pages
...beside the mighty lines of Milton : " 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 sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine..., Volume 2

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...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 50

English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...withering, prevailed. At its voice, " 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...
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The Book of Symbols: A Series of Seventy-five Short Essays on Morals ...

Robert Mushet - Ethics, Ancient - 1847 - 524 pages
...music, and poetry truly divine, — " 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." 1 0....
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Bishop Jeremy Taylor, His Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors: A ...

Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 352 pages
...particularly, the following stanza: — " 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." written...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the soft as she, Nor half so full of juice. Her finger...Would not stay on which they did bring ; It was t No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-cy'd priest from the prophetic cclL The lonely...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 79

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 592 pages
...a later and loftier strain : — 4 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.' 182 Bishop...
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