 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...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 38by Joseph Warton - 1762Full view - About this book
 | Henry Fuseli - Art - 1831 - 472 pages
...fell. Book IV. v. 549, 560. HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. PICTURE XXIX. MARY and JESUS. The ruin of Paganism. 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, &c. The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn; The brutish Gods... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 pages
...fell. Book IV. v. 549, 560. HYMN ON THE NATIVITY. PICTUKE XXIX. MARY and JESUS. The ruin of Paganism. 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, &c. The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn; The brutish Gods... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...he was convinced of this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in his Paradise Lost. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. 252 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...that he was convinced of this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in his Paradise Lost. "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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...his usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges 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 Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Ssrindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumh, 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 leavirg. "No nightly... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1833 - 378 pages
...and unholy mysteries which constituted the system of heathen worship, at the birth of our Redeemer : 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, The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English periodicals - 1834 - 680 pages
...winged beauties, and sends them floating away into dissolution with their white bodies out of the woods. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, !\n voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. 175 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1835 - 402 pages
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges 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 Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly... | |
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