Mufes

The Mufes heard him with gracious fmiles; and though he wrote in profe, yet it was profe adorned with the choiccft gifts of thofe deities that prefide lo MEMOIRS OF THE prefide over works of genius.

memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke charles m'cormick 1798

Round him the Mufes ftrew their fragrant flow'rs From Hehconian fprings, and never fading bow'rs.

The political dramatist of the House of Commons in 1795 : a satire 1796

The Mufes 'empire is reftor'd agen In Charles's reign, and by Rofcommon's pen.

The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795

Yet not the more Ceafe I to wander where the Mufes haunt.

A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.. 1795

J3UT they fay, that Ephialtes and Otus confecrated this mountain to the Mufes, and were the firft that facrificed to thefe divinities in Helicon* They like wife report that Afcra was built by thefe.

The Description of Greece 1794

Here likewifc there is a brazen ftatue of Hefiod: and not far from the forum there are a brazen ftatue of Vi£lory, and a temple of the Mufes not very large, In this temple there are fmall ftatues of ftone.

The Description of Greece 1794

Let his harp be hung in tlie temple of the Mufes, for who mall toiich it with his fkill?

The wandering islander; or, The history of mr. Charles North [by C.H. Wilson]. 1792

In* deed his own tafte does not appear to be the mod elegant; for he profefles a mod violent averfion to poetry, and rails at the nine Mufes in the molt vulgar flyle, which he unfortunately in i flakes for wit. —

The Monthly Review 1791

With each bright virtue that adorns the mind I bid the Mufes, thine harmonious train.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

What power, O Mufes, could avert the flame Which threaten'd, in the fleet, the Trojan name!

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790