 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...tail. The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. uwvwwwBp pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | 1889 - 670 pages
...oracles:— 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. E. YAHDLEY. (7'b 8. vii. 229.) A flattering painter who, &c. (not " An advocate skilful"). Goldsmith's... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 pages
...— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words, deceiving Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand : The rays of... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 448 pages
...— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words, doceiving Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand : The rays of... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1850 - 530 pages
...tail. " 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, With hollow...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." Millon'tJlymn on Christ's Nativity. No. 14. — An angel of a grave... | |
 | 1850 - 538 pages
...tail. " 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, With hollow...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." Milton's Hymn on Christ't Nativity. No. 14.—An angel of a grave... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceivApollo from his shrine [ing. Can no more 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 mountains o'er, And the resounding... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...tail. The oraeles are dnmb,' No voiee or hideons hnm Rnns throngh the arehed roof in words deeeiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly tranee, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetie eell. The lonely monntains... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...xix 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...trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Here the rhythm is much less complex and hesitant: Milton doesn't have... | |
 | John Barnard - 1987 - 192 pages
...written, 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...trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. (lines 173-80) This is a plangent but strongly ironic account of Christ's... | |
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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... 
