 | Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 454 Seiten
...rocky roof to view, and was now reflected from these waters on which the sun-beam never plays:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving." The day looks doubly bright when you again go forth, and you ride to a beautifully-broken fringed ruin... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 Seiten
...usurped sway, And 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...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 Seiten
...Anglo-Saxon, Smolt, hot weather. T. WARTON. The oracles are dumb, XIX. No voice or hideous hum 174 Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, strong image is copied from the descriptions of serpents and dragons in the old Romances and Ariosto.... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 Seiten
...is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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... | |
 | 1840 - 664 Seiten
...oracles ceased to prescribe — , No voice, nor hideous hum Sounds thro1 the arched roof, with strains deceiving; Apollo, from his 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... | |
 | Admission - 1827 - 652 Seiten
...on the waters. Those who built and sent it forth, may behold its wreck ; and though there may be, " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament," §;t they may submit in peace and perish in their wrongs, ut their spirit will survive, and descend... | |
 | 1829 - 704 Seiten
...gods too, dwelt quietly as brothers. But no sooner did Christianity come in, than what an uproar ! Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphoa leaving. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice battered god of Palestine... | |
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 Seiten
...dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving, No...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic celL" Diocletian, in his rage, ordered all in his palace to sacrifice to the Gods, and all soldiers in all... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 372 Seiten
...his earlier pieces, the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edeed with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 550 Seiten
...speaking of this place, on account of the little rock of AntePaxo, which lies to the south-east of it. t " The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard and loud lament." regain their native shores. Thus, as it may be supposed, we were closely packed ! As the breeze wafted... | |
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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... 
