| Giles Fletcher - 1836 - 400 páginas
...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...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... | |
| 1836 - 558 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...the arched 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... | |
| John William Donaldson - 1838 - 140 páginas
...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... | |
| Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 páginas
...is beautifully described by Milton in his magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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... | |
| William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 páginas
...Milton, in his Hymn on " The Nativity," thus enlarges with inimitable beauty on the same subject:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. ohn Aikin ahrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphoe leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1841 - 312 páginas
...he was convinced of this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in. his Paradise Lost. "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1841 - 390 páginas
...Milton, the noble christian poet, has mentioned the birth of Christ as fatal to this ancient delusion. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs...the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine With 'hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail. Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. shrine Can no more divine, The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping... | |
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