...unholy mysteries which constituted the system of heathen worship, at the birth of our Redeemer! — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A...

...is beautifully described by Milton in his magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice...

...Milton, in his Hymn on " The Nativity," thus enlarges with inimitable beauty on the same subject:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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...

...magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Euns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice...

...spread his And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day. 4 ahrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphoe leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed...

...he was convinced of this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in. his Paradise Lost. "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...No nightly trance, or breathed spell. Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice...

...throne. And then at last our bliss, Full and perfect is, But now begins: for, from this happy day, The old dragon under ground, In straiter limits bound,...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...

...Milton, the noble christian poet, has mentioned the birth of Christ as fatal to this ancient delusion. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs...With 'hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the...

...that blast, And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound,...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice...

...spread his And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. But now begins ; for, from this happy day, rȷ The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From...