| Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 páginas
...is beautifully described by Milton in his magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...leaving. 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... | |
| William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 páginas
...Milton, in his Hymn on " The Nativity," thus enlarges with inimitable beauty on the same subject:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely... | |
| Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 páginas
...magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Euns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...leaving. 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... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1840 - 232 páginas
...as submitting to their banishment " to profoundest hell," was no fiction: — " The lonely mountain o'er And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn... | |
| 1840 - 648 páginas
...— No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro' the arched roof, with strains deceiving; Apollo, from hie shrine, Can no more divine. With hollow shriek, the steep of Delphos leaving. Bacon was anticipated, for induction was applied to physic — and the genius of Hippocrates stamped... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 páginas
...Milton, the noble christian poet, has mentioned the birth of Christ as fatal to this ancient delusion. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs...With 'hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 páginas
...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«yed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| 1841 - 436 páginas
...my hand:— " The Oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runi through the arched roof with word* deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine....the steep of Delphos leaving ; No nightly trance, or breathrd spell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest in his prophetic cell." A louder thunder has been heard... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. ohn Aikin ahrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphoe leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed... | |
| George Oliver - 1843 - 396 páginas
...Suidas, voce Delphi. Plut. Defect. Orac. And our own Milton says : — The oracles are dumb ; No Toice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, in words...the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. the Temple of Jerusalem. The miraculous interposition of heaven to prevent the execution of this project,... | |
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