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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... "
Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City ... - Page 220
by Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1850 - 327 pages
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Sketches of Modern Literature, and Eminent Literary Men ...

George Gilfillan - Authors - 1846 - 508 pages
...tame beside the mighty lines of Milton : " 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 sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine, Volume 2

1846 - 586 pages
...beside the mighty lines of Milton : — * The, oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightiy trance or breathed spelt Inspire» the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine..., Volume 2

1846 - 436 pages
...lines of Milton : — * The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous bum Buna through the arched roof iu words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine With hollow shriek the sleep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...shake, When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But...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 Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 50

1847 - 488 pages
...sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become dead to the great truths their religion embodied. They had sunk the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 79

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 578 pages
...reader of a later and loftier strain : — ' The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his...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...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 50

English literature - 1847 - 482 pages
...sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become dead to the great truths their religion embodied. They had sunk the...
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The Book of Symbols: A Series of Seventy-five Short Essays on Morals ...

Robert Mushet - Ethics, Ancient - 1847 - 524 pages
...of music, and poetry truly divine, — " The oracles are dumb : No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his...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...
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Bishop Jeremy Taylor, His Predecessors, Contemporaries, and Successors: A ...

Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 352 pages
...particularly, the following stanza: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his...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,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 79

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 592 pages
...reader of a later and loftier strain : — 4 The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his...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...
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