mufes

And call the mufes to their ancient feats j To paint anew the flow'ry fylvan fcencs, 285

The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry 1781

The mufes are the mofl coquetiih of their fez, fond of being admired, and always putting on their beft airs to the fineil gentleman: but, alas, Sir! their addreflet are flale, and their fine things but repetition; for there IS nothing new in wit, but what is found in your owo convcrfation.

Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays... 1780

Another car followed the firft, containing the nine mufes and other deities; each of the cars had a number of mufical performers.

Sporting Magazine 1796

(The mufes fparkling round them) who have trod In meaafur'd pace its banks, forever green,

A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.. 1794

Pours down the vale and roaring o'er the plain Sweeps herdsj and hinds, and mufes to the main.

Cider a poem in two books 1791

Of nature, and with daring fteps proceed Through paths the mufes never trod before.

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

Sarmacand being the empcrial feat of Tamer LAN?, who was fo juftly famed by the mufes, whom he generoufly Iheltered when they were baniflied from almoft every other country, requires particular notice.

A new moral system of geography 1790

The arms of the Turks undoubtedly prefled the flight of the mufes; yet we may tremble at the thought, that Greece might bave bees over - whelmed, with her fchools and libraries, before Europe had emerged from the deluge of barba - xifm; that the feeds of fcience might have been fcattered by the winds, before the Italian foil was prepared for their cultivation.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788

Tou might have mufes in the pale, and let them out when capable of get« - tiiig their own food.

Thoughts Upon Hunting: In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend 1782

Laughing mufes, come along y I String anew my feeble lyre.

Modern Manners: Or, The Country Cousins: in a Series of Poetical Epistles 1782