Pelion : mountain of Thessaly, near the Aegean coast, on which lived the centaurs; the giants Aloidae who also lived there once piled Pelion on Ossa to reach heaven.
... nothing, however intricately opulent or Page 3 massive, appears heavy and laboured. Poetry may mix Ormuz with Ind, but it must work with a hand that is born regal. Poetry may heap Pelion upon Ossa, but it must bring an energy intrinsically gigantic. In short, its designs, formed swiftly or slowly, must bear the look of having been executed with sovereign ease. That look, accompanying ...
... warlike assembly, silent Achaia's princes. Wrath and counsel strove in the hush for the voice of the speakers. Page 419 Book VI: The Book of the Chieftains Then as from common hills great Pelion rises to heaven So from the throng uprearing a brow that no crown could ennoble, Male and kingly of front like a lion conscious of puissance Rose a form august, the monarch great Agamemnon. Wroth... fickle as sea-foam. Now if the ancient spirit of Titan battle is over,– Tros fights no more on the earth, nor now Heracles tramples and struggles, Bane of the hydra or slaying the Centaurs o'er Pelion driven,– Now if the earth no more must be shaken by Titan horsehooves, Since to a pettier framework all things are fitted consenting, Yet will I dwell not in Greece nor favour the nurslings of Pallas ...
... N. Ghose were similarly seated on the editor of the Statesman and Mr. Narendranath Sen on Mr. N. N. Page 539 Ghose and Pandit Kaliprasanna Kabyabisharad were piled upon Mr. Sen like Pelion upon Ossa, and the editor of the Daily News were similarly treated; then if under this pressure these three jarring powers were to become suddenly unanimous and struck out an appeal to have this ...
... lesser or different spirits, and whether the defects which we see but do not and cannot weigh too closely in him, will not be fatal when not saved by his all-uplifting largeness. A giant can pile up Pelion and Ossa and make of it an unhewn chaotic stair to Olympus, but others would be better and more safely employed in cutting steps of marble or raising by music a ladder of sapphires and rubies to their ...
... means of instinctively feeling if not logically understanding the poem as a whole. What the present unintelligibles forget is both sides of the truth: they crush completely the poetic art by heaping a Pelion of inharmony on an Ossa of incoherence. Mistaken also in their extremism are those who, while preserving the metrical basis and avoiding verbal savagery as well as imaginative freakishness ...
... sea-foam. Now if the ancient spirit of Titan battle is over,- Tros fights no more on the earth, nor now Heracles tramples and struggles, Bane of the hydra or slaying the Centaurs o'er Pelion driven, Now if the earth no more must be shaken by Titan horse-hooves, Page 82 Since to a pettier framework all things are fitted consenting, Yet will I dwell not in Greece ...
... Achilles and was slain by Philoctetes. Peleus: Son of Aeacus, who was a son of Zeus, and king of Phthia. For his virtue he was given as wife the sea goddess Thetis, who bore him Achilles. Pelion: Mountain in Thessaly, northern Greece. It was the legendary home of the centaurs. Penthesilea: Amazon queen, daughter of Ares. She came to the aid of the Trojans in the last year of the ...
... illustrate them in a poem? I am enclosing a carte blanche for the purpose. What are you dreaming of, sir? A poem as an illustration of my bit of prosodic grammar? Inspiration would run away to Pelion and never return if I did such a shocking thing. I am keeping your carte blanche but the odds are that it may be fitted to quite another purpose. April 25, 1936 R. Reddy has fever and ...
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