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It is not generally known but I don't mind telling YOU that I often nerve myself for the effort of acting by reading some well-remembered passage from my favorite poets, as I stand by the wings. I quaff, as one might say, a single draught of the Pierian spring before I go on."
Why the plague can't you call it so at once, instead of usin' a word that would break the jaw of a German?" "Sam," he replied, "the poet says with great truth, "'A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." "Dear, dear," said I, "there is another strange sail hove in sight, as I am alive. What flag does 'Pierian' sail under?"
"Then, then, does the priest appropriate to himself his due share of enjoyment Then does he, like Elias, throw his garment of inspiration upon his coadjutors. Then is the goose cut up, and the farmer's distilled Latin is found to be purer and more edifying than the distillation of Maynooth. 'Drink deep, or taste not that Pierian spring, A little learning here's a dangerous thing.
Autonomy was bestowed on Antioch on the Orontes, the most important city of Roman Asia and but little inferior to the Egyptian Alexandria and to the Bagdad of antiquity, the city of Seleucia in the Parthian empire; as also on the neighbour of Antioch, the Pierian Seleucia, which was thus rewarded for its courageous resistance to Tigranes; on Gaza and generally on all the towns liberated from the Jewish rule; on Mytilene in the west of Asia Minor; and on Phanagoria on the Black Sea.
"'Thy praise demands much softer lutes. "And the fellow of this verse terminated like myself in 'boots. Other efforts were equally successful 'bloom' suggested to my imagination no rhyme but 'perfume! 'despair' only reminded me of my 'hair, and 'hope' was met at the end of the second verse, by the inharmonious antithesis of 'soap. Finding, therefore, that my forte was not in the Pierian line, I redoubled my attention to my dress; I coated, and cravated, and essenced, and oiled, with all the attention the very inspiration of my rhymes seemed to advise; in short, I thought the best pledge I could give my Dulcinea of my passion for her person, would be to show her what affectionate veneration I could pay to my own.
More pleasantly thus wilt thou labour, and, indeed, of old thou wert a melodist. Battus. Ye Muses Pierian, sing ye with me the slender maiden, for whatsoever ye do but touch, ye goddesses, ye make wholly fair. They all call thee a GIPSY, gracious Bombyca, and LEAN, and SUNBURNT, 'tis only I that call thee HONEY-PALE.
"'Thy praise demands much softer lutes. "And the fellow of this verse terminated like myself in 'boots. Other efforts were equally successful 'bloom' suggested to my imagination no rhyme but 'perfume! 'despair' only reminded me of my 'hair, and 'hope' was met at the end of the second verse, by the inharmonious antithesis of 'soap. Finding, therefore, that my forte was not in the Pierian line, I redoubled my attention to my dress; I coated, and cravated, and essenced, and oiled, with all the attention the very inspiration of my rhymes seemed to advise; in short, I thought the best pledge I could give my Dulcinea of my passion for her person, would be to show her what affectionate veneration I could pay to my own.
During all the years of her enslavement she had been a patron of the nearest public library, and it had been a source of great disappointment to her that Algernon and Percival had made no least attempt to acquire the grace of speech and manner which she had learned to associate with those lordly titles. And now they were refusing even to approach the Pierian Spring!
At the opposite side of this Pierian reservoir, was a hermitage, or arbour of laurels, shaped in the stiff rusticity of the Dutch school, in the prevalence of which it was probably planted; behind this arbour, the ground, after a slight railing, terminated in an orchard.
He patted the neck of the rangy roan which he bestrode, and settled himself to the serious task of expressing his inner-most being in verse. He dipped deep into the Pierian springs, and poesy broke forth. But not, however, until he had "cinched up," as he mentally termed it, the saddle of his Pegasus of the mesas. Sundown paused and called the attention of his horse to the last line.
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