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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... "
Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ... - Page 249
by John Bartlett - 1891 - 1158 pages
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Sketches of Modern Literature, and Eminent Literary Men ...

George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 pages
...tame beside the mighty lines of Milton : " 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 sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine, Volume 2

1846 - 586 pages
...beside the mighty lines of Milton : — * The, oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightiy trance or breathed spelt Inspire» the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice. Her finger...which they did bring ; It was too wide a peck : And, breathed spell, Inspires the pale-cy'd priest from the prophetic cclL The lonely mountains o'er, And...
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Bishop Jeremy Taylor, His Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors: A ...

Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 352 pages
...particularly, the following stanza: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his...the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." written in the youth of his...
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The Book of Symbols: A Series of Seventy-five Short Essays on Morals ...

Robert Mushet - 1847 - 524 pages
...of music, and poetry truly divine, — " The oracles are dumb : No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his...the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." 1 0. Porphyry, one of the deepest...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 50

1847 - 482 pages
...sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...the steep of Delphos leaving ; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 50

1847 - 488 pages
...sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...the steep of Delphos leaving ; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 79

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 578 pages
...reader of a later and loftier strain : — ' The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his...the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.' 182 Bishop Newton, in a note...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 79

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 592 pages
...reader of a later and loftier strain : — 4 The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his...the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.' 182 Bishop Newton, in a note...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains...
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