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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.
Every man is what education has made him, whether he has drunk deep at the Pierian spring, or sipped at the humblest fountain.
"Yes, I am very fond of music, modern music," he said, leaning against the mantelpiece. "Are you a musician by profession?" "Not exactly...nearly." Andrews thrust his hands into the bottoms of his trouser pockets and looked from one to the other with a certain defiance. "I suppose you've played in some orchestra? How is it you are not in the regimental band?" "No, except the Pierian."
Of all the avocations of youth, I conceive the pursuit of the sombre goddess of learning to be the most profitable entirely the most profitable. I myself, though a young man, being still on the right side of forty, have reaped the richest harvest from my labours in the classic shades. Twenty years ago, young gentlemen, I, like you, left my ancestral estates to sip at the Pierian spring.
"I 'm an old woman," said she. "All old women love a lover. You renew the romance of things for us. You transport us back, a century or so, to our hot youth, when George the Third was king, and we were lovers ourselves. Et in Arcadia ego but I 've lost my Greek." "You 'll never lose your Pierian," said Anthony, bowing. He took her hand, bent over it, and touched it with his lips.
Pierian Spring! O Aye! the cloister Pump!" Our classical knowledge was the least of the good gifts which we derived from his zealous and conscientious tutorage. With the then head-master of the grammar-school, Christ Hospital, we were not personally acquainted; but we cannot help thinking that he has been singularly unfortunate in his Eulogist.
Here nature is strong and there exhausted, now animated and then asleep. At the poles, the features of nature are all frozen, and as stiff as a poker, and in the West Indies burnt up to a cinder. What a pack of stuff it is! It is just a pretty word like pharmacopia and Pierian spring, and so forth. I hate poets, stock, lock, and barrel; the whole seed, breed, and generation of them.
"I vill give you from the Pierian spring bucketsful," said Pinchas in a flush of generosity. "Thank you, I shall be much obliged," said Raphael, heartily, "for I don't quite see the use of a paper filled up as Mr. Sampson suggests." He flung his arms out and drew them in again. It was a way he had when in earnest. "Then, I should like to have some foreign news. Where's that to come from?"
He does not content himself with the surface of knowledge; but works in the mine for it, knowing that it lies deep. Pope says, very truly, in his "Essay on Criticism": A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Eliot, together with a very little box that I am desired to forward to Mr. Harte.
At early light of a cloudless morning we were going easily down the Gulf of Thermæ or Salonica, having upon our right the Pierian plain; and I tried to distinguish the two mounds which mark the place of the great battle near Pydna, one hundred and sixty-eight years before Christ, between Æmilius Paulus and King Perseus, which gave Macedonia to the Roman Empire.
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