 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 sidor
...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 through the arched roof...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...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,... | |
 | T. S.. Hughes - 1830 - 546 sidor
...speaking of this place, on account of the little rock of Am, Pazo, 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... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 550 sidor
...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... 
