 | George Oliver - 1843 - 396 sidor
...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 sidor
...And, wroth to see his kingdom fail. Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From... | |
 | 1843 - 678 sidor
...work, for it had a divine commission and Godspeed. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hnm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can now no more divine, With hollow shriek the step of Delphos leaving." Dimmer and dimmer, as the generations... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 sidor
...And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament ; b'rom haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent :... | |
 | Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle - 2023 - 240 sidor
...Apollo in his poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Oracles are dum, No voice or hideous humm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. 93 Petrarch was inclined rather to the judgment of Lucan:... | |
 | Publius Papinius Statius - 1991 - 288 sidor
...sortibus antra', etc., Milton. On the Moruing of Cheist's .\ativity, 173 ff. 'The oracles are dumb. , No voice or hideous hum / Runs through the arched...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving'. See further HW Parke and DEW Wormell. The Delphic Oearle ;Oxford, 1956), i. 287 ff. 514 f. Juno's patronage... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1995 - 682 sidor
...No voice or hideous hum Suns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine C?n no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Illustrative. Spenser, Faerie Queene, 1, 2, 2; 1, 2, 29; 1, 11, 31 ; 1, 12, 2. Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 sidor
...new prophet-poets, will draw their inspiration from Christian divinity, not from Apollo at Delphos: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. (lines 176-80) It is a beautiful, haunting picture of loss.... | |
 | Gordon Teskey - 1996 - 220 sidor
...change of sensibility that occurred when the psychological power of an old world order was purged: The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore...From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, io Prudentius, Psychomachia, 11. 28-35, ' nv °l- 3 of Prudence, ed. and trans. M. Lavarenne (Paris:... | |
 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 sidor
...alludes to the Plutarchan event in his ode "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. . . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament.... | |
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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... 
