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... On the Delay of the Deity in Punishing the Wicked - Page 150by Plutarch - 1867 - 171 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...through the arched roof in words deceiving. \pollo from his shrine -an no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 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,... | |
| 1864 - 868 pages
...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...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." If this be true, it is also certain that one possessed of a spirit of Python lived and practised divination... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...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-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
| John Milton - 1815 - 234 pages
...arebed roof in words deceiving. 175 Apolto from his sbrine Can "o more divine, With hollow sbriek. the steep of Delphos leaving No nightly trance. or breathed spell, Inspires the jwle.ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. 19* XX. Thr lonely monntains oVr, And the irsonn'ling shore,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...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-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...Saviour, in his ode: " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the sleep of Dclphos leaving; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell:" which Dr. Newton calls an allowable allusion in a young poet, while Warton defends and praises it in... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 pages
...Saviour, in his ode: " Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the sleep of Dclphos leaving; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell:" which Dr. Newton calls an allowable allusion in a young poet, while Warton defends and praises it in... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pages
...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-ey'd priests from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With.hollo w shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell . VOL. III. M The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and lond lament ; From... | |
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