...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 loud lament ; From...

...Suidas, voce Delphi. Plut. Defect. Orac. And our own Milton says : — The oracles are dumb ; No Toice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, in words...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. the Temple of Jerusalem. The miraculous interposition of heaven to prevent the execution of this project,...

...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 loud lament ; b'rom...

...of Romanism trembled in the midst of services as quaint and unchristian as those of Paganism itself. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns...

...of the Saviour's advent, as follows : The oraclea are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through ihe arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo, from his shrine...Inspires the pale•eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 5. ei fi&tiov .... fiiov, though it may refer to moral conduct, can also be understood of worldly success...

...savage deities might well be silent. Milton embodies the idea very nobly, in his hymn on the Nativity : "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." The genius of the Christian faith had as effectually cowed that of the Aztec religion, as that of Cortes...

...radiant past ! " Of Marathon and Salamis 1 of wisdom, eloquence and song — " All silenced now ! — " The oracles are dumb : " No voice or hideous hum "..." With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. " What fates were hers, since Japheth's son set foot npon her soil — " Javan to Otho I " Marathon...

...earlier pieces, the departure of these pretended deiies on the eve of the blessed Nativity. •, " 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 loud lament ; From...

...Nativity. The spirit and tone of Milton's lines are scarce surpassed by any thing even in his later works : "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 loud lament . From...

...Nativity. The spirit and tone of Milton's lines are scarce surpassed by any thing even in his later works : "The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cellThe lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ;...