 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 Complete Poetical Works of John Milton - Strana 484podľa John Milton - 1892 - Počet stránok 618Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1864 - Počet stránok 868
...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 - Počet stránok 418
...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 - Počet stránok 414
...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 - Počet stránok 540
...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 - Počet stránok 270
...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 - Počet stránok 366
...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 - Počet stránok 356
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - Počet stránok 510
...Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for from this happy day Th' old Dragon under ground In straitcr limits bound, Not half so far casts' his usurped sway,...arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine 176 Can no more divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightlv trance, or breathed... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - Počet stránok 460
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - Počet stránok 360
...usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. 19. 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. 20. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,... | |
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