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The following lines are: “Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:/There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain/And drinking largely sobers us again.”

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’

I’ve enough to hire the Pierian Hall for a day and a night.

I’m not making a fortune at the Pierian.”

You ought to have called yourself Silvia Scarletti, told your press agent that you were the direct descendant of the composer, vowed that when you came to England six months ago you could speak nothing but Polish, and you could have filled the Pierian night and day for a year.