| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 592 páginas
...discomfiture of paganism in a chant that will remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — 4 The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.' 182 Bishop Newton, in a note on this passage, remarks that Milton ' builds on the common hypothesis... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1847 - 352 páginas
...Morning of our Lord's Nativity.1 That noble poem, 1 Compare, particularly, the following stanza: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely have been unknown to Taylor. From this chapter,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 578 páginas
...discomfiture of paganism in a chant that will remind the reader of a later and loftier strain : — ' The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.' 182 Bishop Newton, in a note on this passage, remarks lhat Milton ' builds on the common hypothesis... | |
| Robert Mushet - 1847 - 524 páginas
...actions. But now, says our greatest poet, in language full of music, and poetry truly divine, — " The oracles are dumb : No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." 1 0. Porphyry, one of the deepest of the mystic school, in a curious passage, has presented to us another... | |
| Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 páginas
...passed away. CHAP XIII. THE WITCH OF ENDOR. " 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." MILTON — Hymn of the Nativity. " There are numbers of the like kind, especially if you include dreams... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 páginas
...With such a horrid clung As on Mount Sinai rang, While the red fire and smouldering clouds outbrake ; The aged earth aghast, With terror of that blast,...heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale, With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The Nymphs, in twilight shade of tangled thickets, In consecrated... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...centre shake; When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread hit @ . pale-ey'd priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice... | |
| 1889 - 670 páginas
...the advent of Christ silenced the devils who, in the disguiee of gode, had been uttering oracles:— The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs...divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. E. YAHDLEY. (7'b 8. vii. 229.) A flattering painter who, &c. (not " An advocate skilful"). Goldsmith's... | |
| 1850 - 538 páginas
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo from his...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." Milton's Hymn on Christ't Nativity. No. 14.—An angel of a grave and priestly aspect—a figure of... | |
| Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1850 - 530 páginas
...Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof, in words deceiving. Apollo from his...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." Millon'tJlymn on Christ's Nativity. No. 14. — An angel of a grave and priestly aspect — a figure... | |
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