 | Congregational churches - 1829 - 704 pages
...gods too, dwelt quietly as brothers. But no sooner did Christianity come in, than what an uproar ! Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphoa leaving. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice battered god of Palestine... | |
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving, No...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic celL" Diocletian, in his rage, ordered all in his palace to sacrifice to the Gods, and all soldiers in all... | |
 | Walter Scott - Biography & Autobiography - 1830 - 372 pages
...deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " 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 lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From... | |
 | University of Cambridge - Classical education - 1830 - 636 pages
...253. j^dípo, irpoßaiy ippiafiéviag— &'>} TÍfiíov тгрш<твш. Into Greek Tragic Iambics. The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1831 - 546 pages
...eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Rons through the arch'd roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can...nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priests from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...stage things past; I do believe them little more than things to come. Some have been of my Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving Apollo from his...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nighly trance or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the... | |
 | Henry Fuseli - Art - 1831 - 464 pages
...XXIX. MARY and JESUS. The ruin of Paganism. 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, &c. The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn; The brutish Gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 pages
...XXIX. MARY and JESUS. The ruin of Paganism. 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, &c. The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn; The brutish Gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...day The old Dragon under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, 170 And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly...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, 178... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...all the incidents in his Paradise Lost. "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 lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From... | |
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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... 
