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Obeying this generous impulse, he slipped the enchanted bridle off the head of Pegasus and took the bit from his mouth. "Leave me, Pegasus!" said he. "Either leave me or love me." In an instant the winged horse shot almost out of sight, soaring straight upward from the summit of Mount Helicon.
While I here solemnly protest before my Helicon, in the presence of my nine mistresses the Muses, that if I live yet the age of a dog, eked out with that of three crows, sound wind and limbs, like the old Hebrew captain Moses, Xenophilus the musician, and Demonax the philosopher, by arguments no ways impertinent, and reasons not to be disputed, I will prove, in the teeth of a parcel of brokers and retailers of ancient rhapsodies and such mouldy trash, that our vulgar tongue is not so mean, silly, inept, poor, barren, and contemptible as they pretend.
The poet placed on an ignominious level with the nervous hypochondriac! You are the very last person I should suppose guilty of entertaining such a degraded estimate of human powers," interposed Clara energetically. "I know it is customary to rave about Muses, and Parnassus, and Helicon, and to throw the charitable mantle of 'poetic idiosyncrasies' over all those dark spots on poetic disks.
No one, surely, whose lips had not tasted of the waters of Helicon, could have uttered such words as these: Here's the blue violet, like Pandora's eye, When first it darkened with immortal life or a line of such intense imaginative force as this: I've huddled her into the wormy earth;
Once the nine all weeping came To the god of song "Oh, papa!" they there exclaim "Hear our tale of wrong! "Young ink-lickers swarm about Our dear Helicon; There they fight, manoeuvre, shout, Even to thy throne. "On their steeds they galop hard To the spring to drink, Each one calls himself a bard Minstrels only think! "There they how the thing to name!
Equally simple and trustful was his selection of myself as compiler. It was based somewhat, I think, upon the fact that "the artless Helicon" I boasted "was Youth," but I imagine it was chiefly owing to the circumstance that I had from the outset, with precocious foresight, confided to him my intention of not putting any of my own verses in the volume.
'It is said', thus Erasmus concludes his boutade, 'that no one can understand the mysteries of this science who has had the least intercourse with the Muses or the Graces. All that you have learned in the way of bonae literae has to be unlearned first; if you have drunk of Helicon you must first vomit the draught.
The pediment of the Parthenon, the oleanders of the Ilissus, the stream "that runs in rain-time," the naked peak of Parnassus, the green slopes of Helicon, the blue gulf of Argus, the pine forest beside Alpheus, where the ancients worshipped "Death the Gentle" all of them passed in recount upon his learned lips.
Rhamnus, the ruins of Rhamnus you are a great Grecian, now. I don't know whether you have given much study to the topography. I spent no end of time in making out these things Helicon, now. Here, now! 'We started the next morning for Parnassus, the double-peaked Parnassus. All this volume is about Greece, you know," Mr.
Schmidt shows the crater on the N. rim and another on the S.E. slope, both of which are omitted by Neison, though they are easy objects when Helicon is on the morning terminator. About 20 miles on the S.E. there is a very bright little crater on a faint light area. HELICON. The companion ring-plain on the E. It is 13 miles in diameter, and is very similar, though not quite so deep.
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