...— and Wordsworth's description of the origin of its multitudinous gods look tame beside the mighty lines of Milton : " The oracles are dumb : No voice...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...

...Lord'— and Wordsworth's description of the origin of its multitudinous gods looks tame 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...

...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. e : No grape that's kindly ripe could be So round,...so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice. Her fin shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed...

...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " 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...

...actions. But now, says our greatest poet, in language full of music, and poetry truly divine, — " 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...

...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " 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...

...discomfiture of paganism in a chant that will remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — ' 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...

...Morning of our Lord's Nativity.1 That noble poem, 1 Compare, particularly, the following stanza: — " 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...

...discomfiture of paganism in a chant that will remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — 4 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...

...Morning of our Lord's Nativity.1 That noble poem, 1 Compare, particularly, the following stanza : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words decemng; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely...