Crossword-Solution: PARNASSUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parnassus | n. | A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “PARNASSUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Airy domain of the Muses. | 1 answer |
| DEUCALION, refuge place of | 1 answer |
| Mount high above Delphi | 1 answer |
| Mount sacred to Apollo | 1 answer |
| Muses' mountain | 1 answer |
| Poetical collection. | 1 answer |
| Poets collectively. | 1 answer |
| a mountain in central Greece where the Muses lived | 1 answer |
| Symbol of poetic inspiration. | 2 answers |
| MUSES, domain of the | 3 answers |
| Greek peak | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZECME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PARNASSUS (5)
And if you do, I hope you will find that these new errants of the Parnassus on Wheels Corporation are living up to the ancient and honourable traditions of our noble profession.
What groves or lawns Held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love- Love all unworthy of a loss so dear- Gallus lay dying? for neither did the slopes Of Pindus or Parnassus stay you then, No, nor Aonian Aganippe.
With some sprouts forth A forest of dense suckers from the root, As elms and cherries; so, too, a pigmy plant, Beneath its mother's mighty shade upshoots The bay-tree of Parnassus.
His countrymen forsook the lofty sides of Parnassus, on which they had once walked with echoing steps, and disused the studies once so beloved; the powers of thought fell into neglect.” The highest powers of thought cannot be realized without the life of the spirit.
Sonnet Oh for a poet -- for a beacon bright To rift this changeless glimmer of dead gray; To spirit back the Muses, long astray, And flush Parnassus with a newer light; To put these little sonnet-men to flight Who fashion, in a shrewd, mechanic way, Songs without souls, that flicker for a day, To vanish in irrevocable night.
Quotes with PARNASSUS (3)
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and herewere every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1948–2012).