"Pierian spring" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the spring of the Muses in Greek mythology.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;\nDrink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The motives of the present work—Reception of the Author’s first publication—The discipline of his taste at school—The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds—[William Lisle] Bowles’s sonnets—Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. [Alexander] Pope”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, pages 7–9:",
          "text": "At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. […] [H]e showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. […] In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming \"Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse? Your Nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring? Oh 'aye! the cloister-pump, I suppose!\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, Ambrose Bierce, “A Poet's Father”, in Black Beetles in Amber:",
          "text": "[…] a studious land\nWhere humming youth, intent upon the page,\nThirsting for knowledge with a noble rage,\nDrink dry the whole Pierian spring",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 2, Timothy W. Ryback, “First Chapter: Hitler’s Private Library”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-09:",
          "text": "For him the library represented a Pierian spring, that metaphorical source of knowledge and inspiration. He drew deeply there, quelling his intellectual insecurities and nourishing his fanatic ambitions.",
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        }
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        "The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning."
      ],
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          "learning",
          "learning"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, chiefly literary) The source of knowledge, inspiration, or learning."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "Pierian Spring"
        }
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        "Pierian Spring"
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  "etymology_text": "From the spring of the Muses in Greek mythology.",
  "forms": [
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          "ref": "1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;\nDrink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The motives of the present work—Reception of the Author’s first publication—The discipline of his taste at school—The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds—[William Lisle] Bowles’s sonnets—Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. [Alexander] Pope”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, pages 7–9:",
          "text": "At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. […] [H]e showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. […] In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming \"Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse? Your Nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring? Oh 'aye! the cloister-pump, I suppose!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, Ambrose Bierce, “A Poet's Father”, in Black Beetles in Amber:",
          "text": "[…] a studious land\nWhere humming youth, intent upon the page,\nThirsting for knowledge with a noble rage,\nDrink dry the whole Pierian spring",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 2, Timothy W. Ryback, “First Chapter: Hitler’s Private Library”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-09:",
          "text": "For him the library represented a Pierian spring, that metaphorical source of knowledge and inspiration. He drew deeply there, quelling his intellectual insecurities and nourishing his fanatic ambitions.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
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      ],
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      "word": "Pierian Spring"
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  "word": "Pierian spring"
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