203 examples of parnassus in sentences

Here he dismissed most of his escort, proceeded to Patras, and on to Vostizza, caught sight of Parnassus, and accepted a flight of eagles near Delphi as a favouring sign of Apollo.

This, in turn, called forth another letter to Byron eager for more of his verses, with a cordial invitation to Abbotsford on the ground of Scotland's maternal claim on him, and asking for information about Pegasus and Parnassus.

He presents his copy of the Giaour to Scott, with the phrase "To the monarch of Parnassus," and compares the feeling of those who cavilled at his fame to that of the Athenians towards Aristides.

In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.

nay, 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.

In "England's Parnassus," 1600, he is called indifferently Thomas Lodge and Doctor Lodge.]

Wits Interpreter, the English Parnassus: or a sure Guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat the English Gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of Discourse or Writing.

Eryx, and Othrys, and Cithgeron, glow; And Rhodope, no longer clothed in snow; High Pindus, Mimas, and Parnassus sweat, And Ætna rages with redoubled heat.

"This is another Brutum Fulinen launched at the Critical Review by one Churchill, who it seems is a clergyman, and it must be owned has a knack at versification; a bard, who upon the strength of having written a few good lines in a thing called The Rosciad, swaggers about as if he were game-keeper of Parnassus.

William Marshall's portrait of John Fletcher faces the title-page of both folios with the following inscription engraved underneath: Felicis ævi ac Præsulis Natus; comes Beaumontis; sic, quippe Parnassus, biceps; FLETCHERUS unam in Pyramida furcas agens.

there is still an old proverb to cross us, I found there no room for the sons of Parnassus; And therefore contented like others to fare, To the shades of Elizium

Among his books are "The Idiot," "A House Boat on the Styx," "The Bicyclers, and Other Farces," "Songs of Cheer," "Line o' Cheer for Each Day o' the Year," "The Foothills of Parnassus," "A Quest for Song," and "The Cheery Way."

I dined in Parnassus, with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Rogers, and Tom Moorehalf the Poetry of England constellated and clustered in Gloster Place!

"I dined in Parnassus."

Well, this you'll sure acknowledge fine, Parnassus' top with all the Nine.

Keep close, wide is the Blocksberg here As Germany's Parnassus. INQUISITIVE TRAVELLER How name ye that stiff formal man, Who strides with lofty paces? He tracks the game where'er he can, "He scents the Jesuits' traces.

It was not quite so comprehensive as the beautiful knightly pledge administered by King Arthur to his comrades, and transmitted to our time by Major-General Tennyson of the Parnassus Division.

In New England, the land of industry, self-control, and superior cultivation, (for the American Parnassus was then in Connecticut, either in Hartford, or on Litchfield Hill,) there was, comparatively speaking, no lower class.

Parnassus wept with them, but no amount of weeping could destroy the ugly doggerel as Olga had written it.

Madame Colette Willy rises to-day on the world of Letters as the poetessat last!who, with the tip of her slipper sends all the painted, laureled, cothurnèd, lyre-carrying Musesthat, from Monselet to Renan, have roused the aspirations of classes in Rhetoricrolling, from the top to the bottom of Parnassus.

R118689, 13Oct53, Virgil Markham (A) MARKS, PERCY. Which way Parnassus?

Parnassus on wheels.

"This great poet is always astride of Parnassus and Rue Quincampoix," said the Marquis of Argenson.

You may suppose that these graduations to Parnassus was [sic] carried into effect, because a large amount of knowledge could be obtained.

Elpine Encina, Juan del Encinas, Pedro de Endelechius, Severus Sanctus England's Helicon England's Mourning Garment England's Parnassus Englische Studien English Grammar (Jonson)

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