Still may the wisdom of the Comic Muse Exalt your merits, or your faults accuse.
On native themes his Muse displays her pow'rs; If ours the faults, the virtues too are ours.
The wayward and morbid Muse of the English Lord does not seem to us a fit inspiration for the pure pencil of Scheffer.
The vigorous and hearty Northern Muse especially won his favor; yet the greatest Italian poet was also his earnest study.
Kindelon seemed tomuse for a brief space; and any such unconversational mood was rare, as we know, with his mercurial lightsomeness of manner.
Oh, no," dissented Pauline, appearing to muse a trifle.
When summer's end is nighing And skies at evening cloud, I muse on change and fortune And all the feats I vowed When I was young and proud.
When I would muse in boyhood The wild green woods among, And nurse resolves and fancies Because the world was young, It was not foes to conquer, Nor sweethearts to be kind, But it was friends to die for That I would seek and find.
Did some of them even meditate the thankless museand not mind her ingratitude?
He subordinates the voice to articulate speech, and for fear lest the muse should take flight he clips her wings; so that his works are rather symphonic dramas than operas.
Our Muse kindles a lofty hero's flame, a lofty seer's flame, and always the flame of a lofty immortality.
Go aside A space, and let me muse on what ye show.
Poetry was cultivated and poets cherished with a like regard: the Spanish innate love of the Muse joined hands with that of the Arabic.
The Arab muse profited with the rest of this revival.
The Muse he perceived was capricious and coy; Though many were courting her, few could enjoy.
His latest volume, 'The Tenth Muse and Other Poems,' appeared in 1895.
His muse dealt with ephemeral themes, but his bons mots are current among his countrymen to this day.
The muse ceased to content herself with "flame-songs that burn their pathway" to the heart.
The hostilities which followed between these rival wooers of the pastoral muse are well known.
And that musehad no resurrection until the age of Shakspeare.
But by that time the genius of the tragic muse had long slept the sleep of death.
Contemporary with him was Thomas Jorden, and of much like equal Fame; indulging his Muse more to vulgar Fancies, then to the high flying wits of those times, yet did he write three Plays, viz.
Nor night doth hinder day, nor day the night doth wrong; The summer not too short, the winter not too long: What help shall I invoke to aid my Muse the while?
Preferring to the vigour of thy Muse Some smooth weak Rhymer, that so gently flowes, That Ladies may his easy strains admire, And melt like Wax before the softning fire.
In school I can look at her and muse over days departed.
You'd better muse over your lessons and sums," said Marilla, concealing her delight at this development of the situation.
He holds office from the Muse only; or upon occasion from the mighty mother, Dulness.
Whalley, was not so indifferent to the success of his muse as Monsieur Hardy; but he ranks among damned authors who have accepted condemnation or neglect with a joke.
Here the muse of Canada ought to be, and is, so great and strong.
Just so, when Kings approach, our Conduits run Claret, as here the spouts flow Helicon; See, every sprightfull Muse dressed trim and gay Strews hearts and scatters roses in his way.
Beaumont lyes here; and where now shall we have A Muse like his to sigh upon his grave?
Thence (Learned Fletcher) sung the muse alone, As both had done before, thy Beaumont gone.
Or Heaven reverse the dread decree of fate, Not here the mourner would his grief reveal, Not here the muse her virtues would relate.
But now the Sicilian Muse returns, all the more lovely for the contrast with the stern malediction that has gone before.
Whether the Muse or Love called thee his mate, Both them I serve, and of their train am I.
Even the Muse Calliope could do nothing for her son Orpheus, whom the Thracian women tore to pieces under the excitement of their Bacchanalian orgies.
Hence with denial vain and coy excuse: So may some gentleMuse With lucky words favor my destined urn, 20 And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud!
To meditate the muse is a standard expression of the pastoral poets.
It marked the withdrawal of the muse from the world's high places into the cool sequestered vale of life.
He invokes the peculiarmuse of the new school: "Indulgent Fancy, from the fruitful banks Of Avon, whence thy rosy fingers cull Fresh flowers and dews to sprinkle on the turf Where Shakspere lies.
Johnson complained, infected the British muse with the notion that "he who could do nothing else could write like Pindar.
We all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us!
But the muse of their inspiration was not the tragic Titaness of Dürer's painting: "The Melencolia that transcends all wit.
The Muse gave birth to Collins," says Swinburne; "she did but give suck to Gray.
Pope was thankful for the counsel and mentions its giver in the "Essay on Criticism" as one who had "taught hismuse to sing, Prescribed her heights and pruned her tender wing.
It is a part of the irony of things that so robust a muse as Walter Scott's should have been nursed in infancy by a little creature like Lewis.
Samples of the Iscam and the Canynge musediversify the collection.
The lustre from the face of things Is wearing all away; Like one who halts with tired wings, I rest and muse to-day.
But, in Branwell's earlier poems, this influence is not so marked, and his muse is simply attuned to the saddened thoughts in which Nature participates.
The reader will see how these influences told on Branwell Bronte, and how sad the voices of the birds were for him; how his muse was inspired with the note of misery, and his longing was for peace alone.
He did little now but muse over a few favourite books and listen to his daughter's conversation.
I note phenomena, and muse about them, and not a few interest me extremely.
The shock of sorrow compelled her to muse on problems which as yet she had either not realised, or had solved in the light of tradition, childwise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
