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
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 páginas
...usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. 19. 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. 20. The... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 476 páginas
...Anglo-Saxon, Smolt, hot weather. T. WARTON. The oracles are dumb, XIX. No voice or hideous hum 174 Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, strong image is copied from the descriptions of serpents and dragons in the old Romances and Ariosto.... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 páginas
...is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, 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, [cell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic The lonely... | |
| 1840 - 664 páginas
...oracles ceased to prescribe — , No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro1 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... | |
| 1829 - 704 páginas
...gods too, dwelt quietly as brothers. But no sooner did Christianity come in, than what an uproar ! Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphoa leaving. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice battered god of Palestine... | |
| Walter Scott - 1830 - 374 páginas
...his earlier pieces, the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " 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 lonely... | |
| University of Cambridge - 1830 - 636 páginas
...тгрш<твш. Into Greek Tragic Iambics. The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely... | |
| Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 páginas
...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...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, &c. The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn; The brutish Gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog... | |
| Henry Fuseli - 1831 - 472 páginas
...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...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, &c. The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn; The brutish Gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 páginas
...represent on the stage things past; I do believe them little more than things to come. Some have been of my Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving Apollo...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nighly trance or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on... | |
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