“And that dismal cry rose slowly
And sank slowly through the air,
Full of spirit's melancholy
And eternity's despair;
And they heard the words it said,—
"Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
Pan, Pan is dead!"”
The Dead Pan; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
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Why the Oracles cease to give Answers
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Writings, ‘’The One and the Many‘’ (1971), Ch. VIII-7, p. 142.
“Out of the frying pan into the fire.”
De calcaria in carbonarium.
De Carne Christi, 6; "The Roman version of the proverb is more literally translated "Out of the lime-kiln into the coal-furnace."
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“What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river?”
A Musical Instrument http://www.webterrace.com/browning/A%20Musical%20Instrument.htm, st. 1 (1860).
Context: What was he doing, the great god Pan,
Down in the reeds by the river?
Spreading ruin and scattering ban,
Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat,
And breaking the golden lilies afloat
With the dragon-fly on the river.
“3835. Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.”
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Falling from the pan
Into the fire beneath.”
Canto XIII, stanza 30 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)