parnassus in English

noun

mountain in central Greece; mountain that was sacred to Apollo and the place where the Muses lived (Greek mythology); collection of poems or fine literature; the world of poetry; poets as a group; name of any poetry center or artistic activity

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1. Lupines, mountain ash, cinquefoils, Arnicas, pearly everlastings and grass-of-parnassus also make their debut in early Summer

2. Shakespeare Anthologized: England's Parnassus Home Exhibition Shakespeare the Poet Contemporary accounts and critical responses to poetry Englands Parnassus, or, The choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c.

3. A SAFETY MATCH IAN HAY No Bacchic revels on Mount Parnassus were ever more Corybantic. ALL AROUND THE MOON JULES VERNE

4. 20 Wu's poems full of Paladin complex were evidently rare treasures in the content - inanition Parnassus of the Qi and Liang dynasties.

5. In character sincere and melancholic, he was linked to the Parnassus school, although, at the same time, his work displays characteristics of its own.

6. There are certain holy ones, sisters born -- three virgins (23) gifted with wings: their heads are Besprinkled with white meal, and they dwell under a ridge of Parnassus.