 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 578 pages
...images remained, the divinities themselves had departed. " The oracles arc dumb, No voice or hideons hum Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving....Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." This, so far as we can learn, is very much the present state of things among the independent nations... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 560 pages
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, • Hath left in shadows dread... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 546 pages
...of Christ, but in the entire history of man. " The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim ; And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail.T The oracles * are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetick cell. IM The lonely mountains o'er,1 And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard... | |
 | George Colfax Baldwin - 1855 - 348 pages
...eternity-trained angels, One thing is certain, as Milton has beautifully said in his Christmas Hymn — " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...leaving, No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-€yed priests from the prophetic cell." The heathen oracle is 110 more, the witchcraft of past... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded taiL The oracles are dumb, 1 No voice or hideous hum TCTXRuns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard 2 and loud lament;... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...the heathen idols at the advent of the Savior. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." In Cowper's poem of Yardley Oak there are some beautiful mythological allusions. The former of the... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - 1855 - 402 pages
...mysterious inspiration. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, with words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." * Jugglery and priestcraft may have had full play in the cave of Trophonius, but not so in ancient... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pages
...of music — a babe's cry heard from the manger at Bethlehem throughout the spiritual universe : " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Dclphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic... | |
 | 1856 - 330 pages
...fortb, with no less truth of history than beauty of poetry, in Milton's immortal Christmas Hymn : " From this happy day The old dragon under ground In...the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The powers of darkness that deceived the world were scattered before the rising of the Sun of righteousness,... | |
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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... 
