...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become dead to the great truths their religion embodied. They had sunk the substance...

...dark, unpeopled world." Every where unbelief, shallow, sensual, withering, prevailed. At its voice, " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." The Jews themselves had become dead to the great truths their religion embodied. They had sunk the substance...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...too wide a peck : And, to say truth (for out it must pale-cy'd priest from the prophetic cclL The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice...

...his usurped sway ; And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...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...

...coming, and their idols were marred and mutilated. " The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hnm Runs through the arched roof, in words deceiving....divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. " Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-battered god of Palestine ; And mooned...

...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...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 mountains...