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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... "
Folia silvulae: sive, Eclogae poetarum Anglicorum in Latinum et Graecum ... - Page 72
by Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, Edg'd with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn,...
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The Antiquities of Freemasonry: Comprising Illustrations of the Five Grand ...

George Oliver - Freemasons - 1843 - 396 pages
...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 from the prophetic cell. the Temple of Jerusalem. The miraculous interposition of heaven to prevent the execution of this project,...
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The Living Age, Volume 154

1882 - 844 pages
...mortalia corda Per gentes humilis stravit pavor ; . . . And so again in these lines of Milton : — The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore...nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. It will be noticed that in both these passages the mythological touch (which is far more pronouncd,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 110

American periodicals - 1871 - 880 pages
...Griechenlands — such as, perhaps, half unconsciously influenced Milton when he sang his Christmas Carol : The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. But Julian, though not a man to sit down and pine over days that are no more, was no persecutor when...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 279

Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...paralleled with the work of Botticelli or Fra Angelico. Sometimes it seems to be a beauty of sound: — "The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore,...poplar pale The parting genius Is with sighing sent." Bnt it is not only image or sound, nor is it the thought that moves us here, for a kind of intoxication...
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...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...resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament ; b'rom haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting genius is with sighing sent :...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...leaving No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the palc-ey'd priest from the prophetic cellThe Edg'd with poplar pale, POETS. JOHN MILTON. With flower-inwoven tresses torn, The nymphs in twilight...
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Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical

Christopher Wordsworth - Greece - 1844 - 502 pages
...held their peace." The words in which Milton refers to this incident in his Ode on the Nativity,— " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament,"— will recur to the memory of the English traveller, as he sails over this spot, particularly if it be...
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The Classical Museum, Volume 1

Leonhard Schmitz - Classical literature - 1844 - 458 pages
...associated with that wild and striking legend, which we must again describe in the words of Milton— The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard and loud lament. Sicily in like manner affords a remarkable instance of the erection of a fabric of geographical mythology...
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Plutarch on the delay of the deity in the punishment of the wicked

Plutarch - Punishment - 1844 - 188 pages
...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 from the prophetic cell. 5. ei fi&tiov .... fiiov, though it may refer to moral conduct, can also be understood of worldly success...
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