Crossword-Solution: PINDARS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

JONATHAN ACT I SCENE: The library of ASHER PINDAR'S house in Foxon Falls, a New England village of some three thousand souls, over the destinies of which the Pindars for three generations have presided.

Some strain in rhyme; the Muses, on their racks, Scream like the winding of ten thousand jacks; 160 Some, free from rhyme or reason, rule or check, Break Priscian's head and Pegasus's neck; Down, down the 'larum, with impetuous whirl, The Pindars, and the Miltons of a Curll.

And in the end (which is worst of all) makes his vaunt that neuer English finger but his hath toucht _Pindars_ string which was neuerthelesse word by word as _Rounsard_ had said before by like braggery.

Indeed, it is a hundred years since Fisher Ames, ridiculing the theory that climate acts directly upon literary products, said wittily of Greece: "The figs are as fine as ever, but where are the Pindars?" The theory of race, in particular, has been sharply questioned by the experts.

Pindars and Shakespeares are few, and Mr -------- (you will fill in the blank according to your own aversion) is not one of them.