 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...  Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talk - Pagina 26door Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 273 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1845 - 356 pagina’s
...deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. •, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo...leaving; No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. The oracles2 are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 562 pagina’s
...surpassed by any thing even in his later works : "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo...; No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pagina’s
...idea very 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...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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1845 - 484 pagina’s
...look 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...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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1845 - 500 pagina’s
...look 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 uo more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 pagina’s
...look 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...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 pagina’s
...looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton : — * The, oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...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... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 488 pagina’s
...shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become dead to the great truths... | |
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