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He and his school had talked outside cafes and elsewhere more than solitaries do as a rule; but, then, rules were what they had vowed themselves to destroy. They proclaimed that verse, in particular, was free. The Hermit of the New Parnassus was now in the Ministry of the Interior, and already decorated: he expressed to Trent the opinion that what France needed most was a hand of iron.
At any rate his head remained unturned by his precocious fame, and to meet these other young men and women his reverend seniors on the slopes of Parnassus gave him more pleasure than the receipt of 'royalties'. Not that his publisher afforded him much opportunity of contrasting the two pleasures.
He walked swiftly along, thinking of King Agenor and Queen Telephassa, and his brothers, and the friendly Thasus, all of whom he had left behind him, at one point of his pilgrimage or another, and never expected to see them any more. Full of these remembrances, he came within sight of a lofty mountain, which the people thereabouts told him was called Parnassus.
I didn't care what happened to Andrew, or to Sabine Farm, or to anything else in the world. Here were my hearth and my home Parnassus, or wherever Roger should pitch his tent. I dreamed of crossing the Brooklyn Bridge with him at dusk, watching the skyscrapers etched against a burning sky. I believed in calling things by their true names.
Carriages were in readiness for him and his family, a band greeted him with music, and passing under a triumphal arch, he was driven to his renewed old home amidst the welcomes and the blessings of his loving and admiring friends and neighbors. Publication of "Parnassus." Emerson Nominated as Candidate for the Office of Lord Rector of Glasgow University. Publication of "Letters and Social Aims."
At Parma, soon afterwards, Petrarch formed another library which he called his 'second Parnassus. At Padua he busied himself in the education of an adopted son, the young John of Ravenna, who lived to be a celebrated professor, and was nicknamed 'the Trojan Horse, because he turned out so many excellent Grecians.
Smiling she gazed on my discomfiture. The lovely lines of the hills, curving about the loch, and with their deepest dip just opposite where I sat, were all of a golden autumn brown, except in the violet distance. The grass of Parnassus grew thick and white around me, with its moonlight tint of green in the veins.
With him rebellion against law and order revealed itself in an abhorrence of text-books, harmony, and scholastic training. He wished to achieve originality without the monotonous climb to the peak of Parnassus, and this was his misfortune.
Petersburg and Berlin Big Houses The "Lions" Peter the Great His Aims and Policy The German Regime Nationalist Reaction French Influence Consequent Intellectual Sterility Influence of the Sentimental School Hostility to Foreign Influences A New Period of Literary Importation Secret Societies The Catastrophe The Age of Nicholas A Terrible War on Parnassus Decline of Romanticism and Transcendentalism Gogol The Revolutionary Agitation of 1848 New Reaction Conclusion.
Then the dolphin changed into the form of a glowing star, which, shooting high into the heavens, lit up the whole world with its glory; and as the awe-stricken crew stood gazing at the wonder, it fell with the quickness of light upon Mount Parnassus. Into his temple Apollo hastened, and there he kindled an undying fire.
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