 | 1864 - 868 pages
...that oracles ceased at the birth of Christ. In his song of the Nativity, he sings — "The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." If this be true, it is also certain that one possessed of a spirit of Python lived and practised divination... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...usurped sway; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly honour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavin" ODES. 287 With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...bliss tull and perfect is, But now begins : for, from this happy day, The' old Dragon, under ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...half so far casts his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins : for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his...the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and lond lament ; From hannted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genins is with sighing... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...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,... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Biography & Autobiography - 1830 - 372 pages
...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,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 546 pages
...eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rons through the arch'd roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priests from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of... | |
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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... 
