Careful Words

pan (n.)

pan (v.)

pan (adv.)

pan (adj.)

Pan himself,

The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion. Book iv.

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!"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861): The Dead Pan.

  The great god Pan is dead.

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Why the Oracles cease to give Answers.

Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.

Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn,

And Pan to Moses lends his pagan horn.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 109.