 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 pages
...execrations so sublime : — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words, deceiving Apollo from his shrine, Can...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand : The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 448 pages
...— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arch'd roof in words, doceiving Apollo from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand : The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 348 pages
...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, Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land, The dreadful Infant's hand. The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 316 pages
...description of the origin of its multitudinous gods, look tame beside the mighty lines of Milton.!— The oracles are dumb No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land The dreadful Infant's hand. The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyne.... | |
 | Rev.H. Musgrave Wilkins,M.A. - 1851 - 300 pages
...These shall become a heavy weight When time swings wide his outward gate EXERCISE CV1. CHRISTMAS HYMN. 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 398 pages
...looks tame beside the mighty lines of Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Ruus through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah's land, The dreadful Infant's hand. The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn.... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...Bending one way their precious influence ; * . * * , The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo,...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1851 - 270 pages
...the radiant past! — Of Marathon and Salamis! of wisdom, eloquence, and song — all silenced now. The Oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum runs...divine, with hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. What fates were hers, since Japheth's son set foot upon her soil — Javan, to Otho!* — Marathon,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1851 - 396 pages
...Milton — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof, in worda deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine,...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. He feels from Judah'a land, The dreadful Infant's band. The rays of Bethlehem blind his duaky eyn.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...to embody forth in words the most lofty ideas. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Buns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud larnant; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent;... | |
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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... 
