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... Elements of Physical and Classical Geography - Page 62by James Pillans - 1854 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1864 - 868 pages
...his song of the Nativity, he sings — "The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving : Apollo from...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." If this... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...the scaly honour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving, No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX. The... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavin" ODES. 287 With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
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| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
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| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...Swinges 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...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... | |
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| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...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... | |
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