...Lord's Nativity.1 That noble poem, 1 Compare, particularly, the following stanza: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely have been unknown to Taylor. From this chapter,...

...paganism in a chant that will remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — ' The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.' 182 Bishop Newton, in a note on this passage, remarks lhat Milton ' builds on the common hypothesis...

...now, says our greatest poet, in language full of music, and poetry truly divine, — " The oracles are dumb : No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." 1 0. Porphyry, one of the deepest of the mystic school, in a curious passage, has presented to us another...

...paganism in a chant that will remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — 4 The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.' 182 Bishop Newton, in a note on this passage, remarks that Milton ' builds on the common hypothesis...

...; And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...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...

...; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are t's kindly ripe could be So round, so plump, so soft...too wide a peck : And, to say truth (for out it must pale-cy'd priest from the prophetic cclL The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice...

...Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest...From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, With flow'r-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. In consecrated...

...hollow shriek the steep of Delphos learutf. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd n ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and...of the ancient hermit« and holy fathers of the c Edg'd with poplar pale, FROM 1649. госта. JOHN HILTOÎC. \Vith flower-inwoven tresses toni, The...

...passed away. CHAP XIII. THE WITCH OF ENDOR. " 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." MILTON — Hymn of the Nativity. " There are numbers of the like kind, especially if you include dreams...

...hmn Runs through the archrd roof in words deceiving, Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, Wilh hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving; No nightly...prophetic cell " The lonely mountains o'er, And the leeourulinc shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From haunted sptiuK and dale, Eilc^d wlih...