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
| 1847 - 488 páginas
...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " 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... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 352 páginas
...Morning of our Lord's Nativity.1 That noble poem, 1 Compare, particularly, the following stanza: — " 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." written... | |
| John Barnard - 1987 - 192 páginas
...appropriate Milton to Keats's own purposes. Milton, in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', had written, 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. (lines... | |
| Publius Papinius Statius - 1991 - 288 páginas
...Delphica damnatis tacuerunt sortibus antra', etc., Milton. On the Moruing of Cheist's .\ativity, 173 ff. 'The oracles are dumb. , No voice or hideous hum /...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving'. See further HW Parke and DEW Wormell. The Delphic Oearle ;Oxford, 1956), i. 287 ff. 514 f. Juno's patronage... | |
| Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle - 2023 - 240 páginas
...Apollo in his poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Oracles are dum, No voice or hideous humm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo...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. 93 Petrarch... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 páginas
...new prophet-poets, will draw their inspiration from Christian divinity, not from Apollo at Delphos: 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-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. (lines... | |
| David Haley - 1997 - 316 páginas
...of Christ. Milton alludes to the Plutarchan event in his ode "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. . . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament.... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...Christ's Nativity' Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 7541 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 7542 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' So when the sun in bed. Curtained with cloudy red. Pillows... | |
| Longxi Zhang - 1998 - 268 páginas
...obsolete on the other. The moment Christ is born in Bethlehem, as Milton envisions it in a famous ode, The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." Here the advent of Christ manifests itself, among other things, as a transformation of language, for... | |
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