 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 Poetical Works of John Milton - Strona 405autor: John Milton - 1857 - Liczba stron: 570Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Milton - 1909 - Liczba stron: 504
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 | 1864 - Liczba stron: 868
...oracles ceased at the birth of Christ. In his song of the Nativity, he sings — "The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." If this be true, it is also certain that one possessed of a spirit of Python lived and practised divination... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - Liczba stron: 418
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly honour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - Liczba stron: 414
...to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Liczba stron: 366
...And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb; No voice, or hideous hum, Runs through the arched...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | 1820 - Liczba stron: 576
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 | John Aikin - 1821 - Liczba stron: 356
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - Liczba stron: 460
...And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and lond lament ; From... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - Liczba stron: 360
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. 19. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. 20. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - Liczba stron: 404
...for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...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... | |
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