...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 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...

...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. e : No grape that's kindly ripe could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full o Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly...

...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 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...

...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 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...

...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " 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...

...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " 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...

...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 through the arched roof in words decemng; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, written in the youth of his intellect, could scarcely...

...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 through the archdd roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, written in the youth of...

...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 through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine. With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. E. YAHDLEY....

...his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. sAEBE v n 0 Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly...