 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
 | Plutarch - Punishment - 1844 - 188 pages
...of the Saviour's advent, as follows : The oraclea are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through ihe arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale•eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 5. ei... | |
 | Leonhard Schmitz - Classical literature - 1844 - 458 pages
...poetical than exact. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof with words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more...divine With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. But the two cliffs of the overhanging steep, the clear stream which issues from the huge cleft that... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - American literature - 1845 - 448 pages
...nobly, in his hymn on the Nativity : " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Rune through the arche'd roof in words deceiving, Apollo from his...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." The genius of the Christian faith had as effectually cowed that of the Aztec religion, as that of Cortes... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 356 pages
...the eve of the blessed Nativity. •, " 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-eyed priest from the prophetic cell " The lonely... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...weltering waves their oozy channel keep. The oracles2 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-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 484 pages
...beside the mighty lines of Milton :— " 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 sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pages
...beside the mighty lines of Milton : — * 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 With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightiy trance or breathed spelt Inspire» the pale-eyed priest from the... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors - 1846 - 508 pages
...tame beside the mighty lines of Milton : " 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 sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...lines of Milton : — * The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous bum Buna through the arched roof iu words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the... | |
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