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Parnassus Plays, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Parnassus Plays, The, the name given to a trilogy produced between 1598...John's College, Cambridge, consisting of The Pilgrimage to Parnassus and The Returne from Parnassus , the latter apparently in two parts. Authorship has not been...
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Parnassus on Wheels
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Parnassus on Wheels, novel by Christopher Morley .
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Parnassus
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Parnassus Mountain peak in central Greece. In ancient times, it was considered sacred to Apollo , Dionysus and the Muses , and was the site of the equally sacred Castalian spring, which lies just above Delphi , at the s foot of the mountain. Height: 2457m (8061ft).
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England's Parnassus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
England's Parnassus, a collection of extracts from contemporary poets, by R. Allott, published in 1600.
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grass-of-Parnassus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
grass-of-Parnassus see saxifrage .
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Anton Raphael Mengs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the church of S. Eusebio, Rome, and the ceiling fresco Parnassus (1761) for the Villa Albani, Rome, Mengs sought to avoid...Vatican Library, a work of much greater significance than the Parnassus, foreshadowing, as it does, the allegorical and historical...
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Saxifrage Family
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...pentandra is in western North America. Several species of grass-of-parnassus occur in cool, open, wet places, including the widespread northern grass-of-parnassus ( Parnassia palustris ). Currants and gooseberries are shrubs that occur...
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Greece
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...all, according to their character, dedicated to the gods. Parnassus was the abode of the sun-god Apollo; the lovely vale of...of Apollo, the Delphian oracle, on the Southern Slopes of Parnassus, where kings, princes, heroes, and slaves of all countries...
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Marston, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...both 1598) were published under the pseudonym Kinsayder, under which name he figures in The Returne from Parnassus (see Parnassus Plays ). Some of these satires were directed against literary rivals, including Bishop J. Hall , and were...
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Mengs, Anton Raphael (1728–1779)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...for the church of San Eusebio in 1757; the world-famous Parnassus, executed for Cardinal Alessandro Albani's villa on the...the Academia di San Fernando in Madrid. The Villa Albani Parnassus is arguably the first truly neoclassical painting, given...
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