Castaly

But as yet the water of Castaly is waiting for me to bedew the maiden glory of my tresses for the service of Phoebus.

The Phoenissae 2008

But as yet the water of Castaly is waiting for me to bedew the maiden glory of my tresses for the service of Phoebus.

The Phoenissae 2008

“The river-nymphs, as daughters of Oceanus, and thus of immortal parentage, are bound to possess organs of more than mortal keenness; but, as you say, the song was not so bad — erudite, as well as prettily conceived — and, saving for a certain rustical simplicity and monosyllabic baldness, smacks rather of the forests of Castaly than those of Torridge.”

Westward Ho! 2007

I estimate that all the literary people who really make an essential part of one's inner life, including the period since English literature first existed, might have ample elbow-room to sit down and quaff their draughts of Castaly round

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

In poetry Miss Brown has done but one volume, “The Road to Castaly, ” 1896, reprinted with new poems in 1917, but this is so fine in quality as to give her a distinct place among American poets.

Biographical Notes Jessie Belle 1917

For him there is no Fount of Castaly whose sweet waters make men mad.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

The man who can say the book is defiling, would draw defilement from the fount of Castaly.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

At present I adapt myself to a rough atmosphere of coarseness and lustiness, in which nothing coarse or lusty I could do would produce the slightest ripple of a convulsion: but I have my store of a cultivated mind and cheap editions of the classics, my little secret fount of Castaly to drink from whenever I so please.

The Rough Road William John Locke 1896

I have no tripod or incense here; no substitute for the divining-well of Castaly.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

At the bottom of this chasm issue forth the waters of Castaly, and fill a stone trough by the road-side.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885