 | John William Donaldson - 1838 - 140 pagina’s
...Milton's glorious " Hymn on the Nativity,"* of which I shall quote the first and two concluding stanzas: The oracles are dumb, No voice, or hideous hum, Runs through the arch'd roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pagina’s
...dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 pagina’s
...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...roof in words deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell,... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 pagina’s
...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 from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 pagina’s
...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...roof in words deceiving, Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine With 'hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1841 - 312 pagina’s
...he was convinced of this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in. his Paradise Lost. "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1841 - 436 pagina’s
...voice or hideous hum Runi through the arched roof with word* deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine. With hollow shriek 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... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pagina’s
...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 from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell,... | |
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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... 
