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Jo's Boys: Chapter 2 — Parnassus
ParnassusIt was well named; and the Muses seemed to be at home that day, for as the newcomers went up the slope appropriate sights and sounds greeted them. Passing an open window, they looked…Lewis Carroll: I
IThere was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from morn to eve the crowded town, And danced the night away.I asked the cause: the aged man…John Donne: Expostulation I. Insultus morbi primus
ExpostulationJohn DonneIF I were but mere dust and ashes I might speak unto the Lord, for the Lord's hand made me of this dust, and the Lord's hand shall re-collect these ashes; the Lord's…John Keats: Ode on indolence
To AutumnOde on indolence They toil not, neither do they spin.Matthew 6:28 One morn before me were three figures seen, With bowed necks, and joined hands, side-faced; And one…Brewer's: Metamorphic Rocks
Those rocks, including gneiss, mica-schist, clay-slate, marble, and the like, which have become more or less crystalline. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Juno
The “venerable ox-eyed” wife of Jupiter, and queen of heaven. (Roman mythology.) The famous marble statue of the Campana Juno is in the Vatican. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…Brewer's: Purbeck
(Dorsetshire). Noted for a marble used in ecclesiastical ornaments. Chichester cathedral has a row of columns of this limestone. The columns of the Temple church, London; the tomb of Queen…Brewer's: Tomb of Our Lord
This spot is now covered by “The Church of the Holy Sepulchre.” A long marble slab is shown on the pavement as the tomb-stone. Where the Lord was anointed for His burial three large…Brewer's: Mantible
(Bridge of) consisted of thirty arches of black marble, and was guarded by “a fearful huge giant,” slain by Sir Fierabras. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: City of Palaces
(The). Agrippa, in the reign of Augustus, converted Rome from “a city of brick huts to one of marble palaces.” (Cf. Suetonius.) Calcutta is called the “City of Palaces.” Modern Paris well…Trending
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