 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 páginas
...And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. The oracles4 are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. (1) Silly — simple, innocent: the original meaning of the word. (2) Noite— music. (See note 10,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...echoes still prolongs each heavenly close. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum XIX. Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, xx. A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale,... | |
 | George Colfax Baldwin - 1856 - 368 páginas
...thing is certain, as Milton has beautifully said in his Christmas Hymn— " The oracles are dumb 5 No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priests from the prophetic cell," The heathen oracle is no more, the witchcraft of past days is no... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1856 - 398 páginas
...execrations so sublime : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words, deceiving Apollo from his shrine, Can...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand : The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1856 - 344 páginas
...execrations so sublime : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand: The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 602 páginas
...radiant past ! '•Of Marathon and Salamis! of wisdom, eloquence and song— " All silenced now! — " The oracles are dumb : " No voice or hideous hum "..." With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. " What fates were here, since Japheth's son set foot upon her noil — " Javan to Otho ! " Marathon... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1856 - 728 páginas
...Milton, with his usual learning and felicity, makes use of this acknowledged fact in his Christmas hymn. The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos heaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priests from the prophetic cell.... | |
 | 1856 - 750 páginas
...Milton, with his usual learning and felicity, makes use of this acknowledged fact in his Christmas hymn. The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the eteep of Delphos heaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priests from... | |
 | 1857 - 770 páginas
...dark places of the earth and their fabled tenants, at the rising of the Sun of .Righteousness — -- The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs...heard, and loud lament, From haunted spring and dale, Helped with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent, With flower-inwoven tresses torn,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1857 - 494 páginas
...is ; But now begins : for from this happy day Th' old dragon under ground In straiter limits bonnd, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth...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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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... 
