 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...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Página 484por John Milton - 1892 - 618 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Milton - 1753 - 374 páginas
...bound/ Not half fo far cafts his ulurped fway, i70 And wroth to fee his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb,...the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his mrine 176 Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leivinp-. o t. r No nightly trance,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 páginas
...bound, Not half fo far cafls his ufurped fway, 170 And wroth to fee his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb,...the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed... | |
 | 1864 - 868 páginas
...that oracles ceased at the birth of Christ. In his song of the Nativity, he sings — "The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched...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 páginas
...Not half so far casts his usurped sway; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly honour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No...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 - 1810 - 414 páginas
...half so far casts his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No...more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavin" ODES. 287 With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 páginas
...half so far casts his usurped sway; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No...deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, : . No nightly trauce, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from the prophetick cell. XX.... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 páginas
...limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; 179 And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindles the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles...arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine 176 Con no more divine, So nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«y'd priest from the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb; No voice, or hideous hum, Runs...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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 anthology - 1824 - 460 páginas
...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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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