 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 434 sidor
...-words deceiving. Apollo from his 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 prophetic cell. 20 The lonely mountains o 'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of-weeping heard, and loud lament;... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2001 - 398 sidor
...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 through the arched roof...divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 2'' peter Milward, Religions Controversies of the Jacobean Age: A Survey of Printed Sources (Lincoln,... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2002 - 428 sidor
...of Christ makes the gods dumb: The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Gods become accidents in substance. Dante, in the Paradiso, so describes the apprehension of divine... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 sidor
...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.0 XIX The oracles are dumb,0 No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.0 No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.... | |
 | Paul Ciholas - 2003 - 532 sidor
...(NPNF-2 IV) 62. Chapter 4 Rise anb e Defp^ic Oracfe The Oracles are dumm, No voice or hideous humm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. — Milton, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, st. 19 The end of life lies in achieving communion... | |
 | Talfourd Ely - 2003 - 338 sidor
...loud cries, as of sorrow and astonishment. To this Milton alludes in his Hymn on the Nativity : — "The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament." (B) FAUNUS, GOD OF COUNTRY LIFE, AND OF THE LUPERCI. There was no lack of deities of country life and... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 508 sidor
...many ftrokes of the fublime. thufiafm, that reigns in the following ftanzas ; The oracles are dumb*, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; No nightly trance, or breathed fpell, Infpires the pale-ey'd prieft from the prophetic cell. . Such... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Jay Macpherson - 2004 - 492 sidor
...parents, Psyche named him Pleasure. VIII. The Passing and Afterlife of the Gods The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Milton The gods of the Greeks and Romans had many ways of making their will known to men. Before any... | |
 | F. R. D. Goodyear - 2004 - 498 sidor
...Laut- und Formenlehre' of H. Hirt. But not all the oracles are dumb : there is one shrine at which a voice or hideous hum runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : KuehnerBlass 1 ii p. 292 ' the ending -a10s is found outside its proper sphere, namely the adjectives... | |
 | Daniel B. Smith - 2007 - 282 sidor
...world forever. Hence, John Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Oracles are dumb,No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...spell, Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the prophetic cell.25 And AE Housman's "The Oracles": Tis mute, the word they went to hear on high Dodona mountain... | |
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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... 
