Perhaps the most striking instance of this desired appropriation of color, particularly the color that Pope associated with nature and, through nature, with the muse and all her feminine lurings, can be found in Windsor-Forest […]
You really touch the limit, said he. You enlarge my view of the possible. Cerebral paresis! Mental inertia! Wonderful! He was too absurd to make me angry.
Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine. Sometimes it is said that the Titaness Themis had the shrine before him, and this, as well as the killing of the Python, suggests that Apollo took over a place already of religious significance, associated with chthonic (i.e., earth) powers.
