| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 578 páginas
...images remained, the divinities themselves had departed. " The oracles arc dumb, No voice or hideons hum Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving....Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." This, so far as we can learn, is very much the present state of things among the independent nations... | |
| Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 560 páginas
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, • Hath left in shadows dread... | |
| Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 546 páginas
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 900 páginas
...usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail.T The oracles * are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. IM The lonely mountains o'er,1 And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard... | |
| George Colfax Baldwin - 1855 - 348 páginas
...eternity-trained angels, One thing is certain, as Milton has beautifully said in his Christmas Hymn — " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...leaving, No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-€yed priests from the prophetic cell." The heathen oracle is 110 more, the witchcraft of past... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 páginas
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded taiL The oracles are dumb, 1 No voice or hideous hum TCTXRuns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard 2 and loud lament;... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 páginas
...the heathen idols at the advent of the Savior. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." In Cowper's poem of Yardley Oak there are some beautiful mythological allusions. The former of the... | |
| James Talboys Wheeler - 1855 - 402 páginas
...mysterious inspiration. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, with words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." * Jugglery and priestcraft may have had full play in the cave of Trophonius, but not so in ancient... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 páginas
...of music — a babe's cry heard from the manger at Bethlehem throughout the spiritual universe : " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic... | |
| 1856 - 330 páginas
...fortb, with no less truth of history than beauty of poetry, in Milton's immortal Christmas Hymn : " From this happy day The old dragon under ground In...the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The powers of darkness that deceived the world were scattered before the rising of the Sun of righteousness,... | |
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