 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 páginas
...the fulfillment of the plan of the God of Scripture. One stanza from the Ode suffices to illustrate: The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphus leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic... | |
 | Carlos J. Alonso - 1998 - 282 páginas
...these verses to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" is striking: "The oracles are dumh, / No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." 13. See, eg, Hopscotch, chapter 1 8. where Oliveira exclaims: "ieh Cartesius viejo jodido!" (eh Canesius,... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - 1998 - 456 páginas
...magnus mihi donat Apollo" ("Great Apollo taught me to foresee the future")—Horace, Satires 2.5.60. 3. "The oracles are dumb, / No voice or hideous hum /...shrine / Can no more divine, / With hollow shriek the step of Delphos leaving. /No nightly trance or breathed spell, / Inspires the pale-eyed priest from... | |
 | Carol K. Mack, Dinah Mack - 1998 - 328 páginas
...tolled the death knoll for many ancient deities: XIX The Oracles are durnm, No voice or hideous humm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving . . . The lonely mountains o 're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament;... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 páginas
...scaly horror of his folded tail. 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1645) 'The Hymn' st. IX 27 The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Uelphos leaving. 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1644) 'The Hymn' st. 19 513 Pillows his chin... | |
 | Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 páginas
...in Turner's mind when he embarked on the composition for this picture: The oracles are dumm, No more or hideous Hum Runs through the arched roof in words...his shrine Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphose leaving And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dred, His burning idol all the... | |
 | Gene Wolfe - 2001 - 388 páginas
...the boy's. "Send back their song to them." "I must hear it first," he told her, and cupped both ears. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No trace or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The boy grinned, and... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 434 páginas
...his usurped sway, And wrath to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 19 The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep ofDelphos io leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2001 - 398 páginas
...never were or at least had become silent, as John Milton put it, on the morning of Christ's nativity: The oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum Runs...divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 2'' peter Milward, Religions Controversies of the Jacobean Age: A Survey of Printed Sources (Lincoln,... | |
 | Joint Association of Classical Teachers - 2002 - 212 páginas
...considerable literary influence. John Milton wrote in his Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roofs in words deceiving. And Elizabeth Barrett Browning in The Dead Pan (1844) reworked Plutarch:... | |
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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... 
