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... Letters on demonology and witchcraft - Page 66by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831Full view - About this book
| 1852 - 788 pages
...were marred and mutilated. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hnm Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine,...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. " Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god of Palestine ; And mooned... | |
| Medicine - 1840 - 652 pages
...oracles ceased to prescribe — No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro' the arched roof, with strains deceiving ; Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine,...With hollow shriek, the steep of Delphos leaving. Bacon was anticipated, for induction was applied to physic — and the genius of Hippocrates stamped... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...tail* The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Uuns through the arched roof in words de№¡nn£ gire them all the lie. Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell learutf. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell.... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 344 pages
...particularly, the following stanza: — " 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, written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely have been unknown to Taylor. From this chapter,... | |
| Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...XIII. THE WITCH OF ENDOR. " The oracles are dumb ! No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." MILTON — Hymn of the Nativity. " There are numbers of the like kind,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...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...trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched _ f m pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| Questions and answers - 1889 - 670 pages
...had been uttering oracles:— The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can...divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. E. YAHDLEY. (7'b 8. vii. 229.) A flattering painter who, &c. (not " An advocate skilful"). Goldsmith's... | |
| George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 396 pages
...moment — to hear execrations so sublime : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words, deceiving Apollo...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand : The rays of... | |
| John Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...Christ's Nativity', had written, The oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can...trance, or 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... | |
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