 | George Wood - 1858 - 378 strani
...nativity "—Hymn, stanza xrlll " For from this happy day The old Dragon under ground, In straitcr limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fall Swings the scaly horror of his folded tall," etc. chief to where I stood, gazing with wonder,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 strani
...our bliss Full and perfect is ; But now begins : for from this happy day Th' old dragon under gronnd In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his...tail. The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Bans through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 strani
...dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne. XvIII. And then at last our bliss Full and perfeet is, But now begins ; for from this happy day The Old...ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far easts his usurped sway, 170 And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the sealy horror of his folded... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1859 - 560 strani
...he sails over this spot, particularly if it be in the darkness of night by the island of Paxo, — " The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, &c. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament."... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 strani
...last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread ha throne And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy...half so far casts his usurped sway, And, wroth to sec Ms kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 strani
...The air, such pleasures loath to iosr, With thousand echoes still prolongs each heavenly cloee. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in wordr. leceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shrink the steep of Delphos... | |
 | John Milton - 1861 - 534 strani
...The old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; 17° And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, Xo voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can... | |
 | 1861 - 324 strani
...were shut -up ; priests were unfrocked; and, in the majestic language of glorious John Milton, — '1 The oracles are dumb : No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, in wordi deceiving : Apollo, from his shrine, Can no more divine, With hollow speech the steep of Delphoi... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 strani
...for from this happy da« Hi' old Dragon under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far cast his usurped sway, And, wroth to see his kingdom fail. Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. XI. The oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving Apollo... | |
 | Joseph William Morris - 1862 - 134 strani
...designed a vanquished Pandemonium. Hear him in the Hymn on the morning of Christ's Nativity: — " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, deceiving, Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek, the steep of Delphos leaving."... | |
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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... 
