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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... "
Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson - Page 195
by Henry Reed - 1855 - 411 pages
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 91, Part 1

1821 - 712 pages
...banish him from his long-loved haunts with tokens of deep regret. Like Milion'i inore elegant fay, " ' From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent'." " The last Brownie who haunted a wild and solitary spot in Ettrick forest, wai banished bv the mistaken...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...oracles at an end ; which facts, though, perhaps, not historically true, are poetically beautiful. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...and loud lament ! • From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-enwoven tresses torn,...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...true, are poetically beautiful* •- • --j;o •; .•)':' : ..' .,--.. , -;ij;. : .; '! .:• oi.* The lonely mountains o'er. And the resounding shore,...heard, and loud lament ! From haunted spring, and date Edg'd with' poplar pale, ,,' , . . ; The parting Genius is with sighing sentj With flower-enwoven...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...not historically true, are poetically/ beautiful; . , • .• i .• . i .1 .".. i .• . i. - . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...of weeping heard, and loud lament ? ; From haunted spri-rig, and dale '• •i M : Edg'd with poplar pale. The parting Genius is with sighing sent; 'Wrth...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; VVith flower-inwoven tresses torn...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 5, Part 1

1809 - 604 pages
...last leave of our island, and afraid that the world will.not afford her another place of refuge. « The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edg'd with poplar pale, >} The parting Geniu, is with ^gj-£ „„ chAsft Philosophy is now the order...
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The Greek tragic theatre: containing Ęschylus by dr. Potter ..., Volume 1

Greek tragic theatre - 1809 - 526 pages
...and the sea, theology, physics, and ethics, and all the monuments of antiquity fall before it :. t The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...heard, and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edg*d with poplar pale, With flow'er-inwoven tresses torn The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets...
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Horę Ionicę: A Poem, Descriptive of the Ionian Islands, and Part of the ...

Waller Rodwell Wright - 1809 - 80 pages
...Orac. c. \ 7. Edit. Hutten. This passage is also alluded to by Milton, in his Hymn on the Nativity. " The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard and loud lament." Dark was the night, and stillness reign'd around; When, from the shore, a more than mortal sound The...
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The baptist Magazine

1864 - 868 pages
...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 from the prophetic cell." If this be true, it is also certain that one possessed of a spirit of Python lived and practised divination...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...shriek the steep of Dclphos leavNo nightly trance, or breathed spell, [ing. Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing s^nt ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn...
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