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... The United Presbyterian Magazine - Página 531859Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb; No voice, or hideous hum, Runs...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 páginas
...made of the presumed annihilation of these prophecies at the nativity of our Saviour, in his ode: " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the sleep of Dclphos leaving; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 páginas
...made of the presumed annihilation of these prophecies at the nativity of our Saviour, in his ode: " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the sleep of Dclphos leaving; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 356 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With.hollo w shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...usurped sway, 170 And, wroth to see his kingdom fail. Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine 176 Can no more divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightlv trance, or breathed... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 páginas
...description of the old dragon: The tmouldring dust did round about an^ no wonder Milton was fond XIX. The oracles are dumb, No 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... | |
| Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 páginas
...rocky roof to view, and was now reflected from these waters on which the sun-beam never plays:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving." The day looks doubly bright when you again go forth, and you ride to a beautifully-broken fringed ruin... | |
| Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 páginas
...rocky roof to view, and was now reflected from these waters on which the sun-beam never plays : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving." The day looks doubly bright when you again go forth, and you ride to a beautifully-broken fringed ruin... | |
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