...wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb,1 No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. xx. The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard3 and loud lament;...

...usurped sway, And, wroth to see his Kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX The Oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed Priest from the prophetic cell. XX The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From...

...his earlier pieces, the departure of these pretended deities on the eve of the blessed Nativity. " The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...trance or breathed spell ' Inspires the pale-eyed priests from the prophetic cell. " The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of...

...the heathen idols at the advent of the Saviour: "The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Rings through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell." In Cowper's poem of "Yardley Oak" there are some beautiful mythological allusions. The former of the...

...poem that are about the pagan 'gods' of earth, he uses effects of sound in a very different way. xix The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. Here the rhythm is much less complex and hesitant: Milton doesn't have to make the distinction between...

...appropriate Milton to Keats's own purposes. Milton, in 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', had written, The oracles are dumb. No voice or hideous hum Runs...Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. (lines 173-80) This is a plangent but strongly ironic account of Christ's birth displacing the superstitious...

...Delphica damnatis tacuerunt sortibus antra', etc., Milton. On the Moruing of Cheist's .\ativity, 173 ff. 'The oracles are dumb. , No voice or hideous hum /...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving'. See further HW Parke and DEW Wormell. The Delphic Oearle ;Oxford, 1956), i. 287 ff. 514 f. Juno's patronage...

...Apollo in his poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Oracles are dum, No voice or hideous humm Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving, Apollo...No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd Priest from the prophetic cell. 93 Petrarch was inclined rather to the judgment of Lucan:...

...Christ's Nativity' Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 7541 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 7542 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' So when the sun in bed. Curtained with cloudy red. Pillows...

...obsolete on the other. The moment Christ is born in Bethlehem, as Milton envisions it in a famous ode, The Oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs...With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving." Here the advent of Christ manifests itself, among other things, as a transformation of language, for...