...is beautifully described by Milton in his magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...leaving. 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...

...Milton, in his Hymn on " The Nativity," thus enlarges with inimitable beauty on the same subject:— " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. " The lonely...

...magnificent hymn " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Euns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...leaving. 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...

...he was convinced of this as a fact, than that he believed all the incidents in. his Paradise Lost. "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...

...Milton, the noble christian poet, has mentioned the birth of Christ as fatal to this ancient delusion. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum, Runs...With 'hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Hymn on the...

...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Huns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-«yed priest from the prophetic cell. The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore, A voice...

...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 lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From...

...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...