 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835 - 402 Seiten
...his usurped sway ; 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 356 Seiten
...pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum RUM through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo...voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spiing and dale, Edeed with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven... | |
 | Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 400 Seiten
...his usurped sway ; 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 358 Seiten
...pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Bum through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell 41 The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ;... | |
 | 1836 - 558 Seiten
...his usurped sway; 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 roof in words deceir. ing. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow sh riek the steep of Delphos leaving.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1837 - 936 Seiten
...his earlier pieces, the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can DO more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos lenvim- ; No nightly trance or breathed spell... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 Seiten
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1838 - 140 Seiten
...Milton's glorious " Hymn on the Nativity,"* of which I shall quote the first and two concluding stanzas: The oracles are dumb, No voice, or hideous hum, Runs through the arch'd roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 Seiten
...the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - 1839 - 512 Seiten
...held their peace." The words in which Milton refers to this incident in his Ode on the Nativity, — " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament," — will recur to the memory of the English traveller, as he sails over this spot, particularly if... | |
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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... 
