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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... "
The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors - Page 292
by Ezekiel Sanford - 1819
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...session, [throne. The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his And then at last our bliss Full Son, etc. ahrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphoe leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed...
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Gems of sacred poetry [ed. by R. Cattermole?].

Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne. And then at last our bliss, Full and perfect is, But now begins: for, from this happy...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...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall ffr(3¿ »i! throne. And then at last our bliss, Full costs his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded...
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A Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 500 pages
...description of the origin of its multitudinous gods look tame beside the mighty lines of Milton :— " The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Runs...roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can uo more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for from this happy...The oracles are 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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...throne. And then at last our bliss, Full and perfect is, But now begins; for, from this happy d»7, nd when they do reply, Straight give them both the »way; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail* The oracles...
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Bishop Jeremy Taylor, His Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors: A ...

Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 344 pages
...Morning of our Lord's Nativity.1 That noble poem, 1 Compare, particularly, the following stanza : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words decemng; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City ...

Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Lincoln (England) - 1850 - 530 pages
...about to be accomplished : the Father of lies " cast out " for ever. " And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy...The oracles are 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...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City ...

1850 - 538 pages
...about to be accomplished; the Father of lies " cast out" for ever. " And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for, from this happy...under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far easts his usurped sway; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded...
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Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City ...

Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Lincoln (England) - 1850 - 578 pages
...about to be accomplished; the Father of lies " cast out " for ever. " And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy...under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far caste his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded...
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