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  • Easily the best and biggest thing in musis is the third album from "The Mungers," titled Mungertown Road.

    Movies and Music from 2008 2009

  • We should therefore transfer this species of amusement – (if indeed those can be said to retire a musis, who were never in their company, or relaxation be attributable to those, whose bows are never bent) – from the genus, reading, to that comprebensive class characterized by the power of reconciling the two contrary yet coexisting propensities of human nature, namely, indulgence of sloth, and hatred of vacancy.

    Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing 2009

  • Now this address assailed me on a summer evening, when I was whiling away my leisure hours with the end of a cutty pipe and indulging in such bland imaginations as the Nicotian weed is wont to produce, more especially in the case of the studious persons, devoted musis severioribus.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • If aught therefore be amiss (as I grant there is), I require a friendly admonition, no bitter invective, [151] Sint musis socii Charites, Furia omnis abesto, otherwise, as in ordinary controversies, funem contentionis nectamus, sed cui bono?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The one is, they live a sedentary, solitary life, sibi et musis, free from bodily exercise, and those ordinary disports which other men use: and many times if discontent and idleness concur with it, which is too frequent, they are precipitated into this gulf on a sudden: but the common cause is overmuch study; too much learning (as [1978] Festus told Paul) hath made thee mad; 'tis that other extreme which effects it.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vale foeliciter (reuerende Dom. pastor) Deo musis, et commissio gregi quàm diuttssime superstes, Amen.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Vale foeliciter (reuerende Dom. pastor) Deo musis, et commissio gregi qu鄊 diuttssime superstes, Amen.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • I was very much afraid -- day after day I faced that musis and hated it -- but there were all sorts of other sensations besides fear which worked a change in me.

    The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

  • ” I am brought into such a mistrust of the sequel of this device that I dare pronounce (almost for certain) that, aif Homer were now alive it should be said to him: “Tuque licet venias musis comitatus Homere,

    Of the Ancient and Present Estate of the Church of England. Chapter V. [1577, Book II., Chapter 5; 1585, Book II., Chapter 1 1909

  • You have a competent and easy fortune --- are generally respected --- may, in your own phrase, vacare musis, indulge yourself in the researches to which your taste addicts you; you may form your own society without doors --- and within you have the affectionate and sedulous attention of the nearest relatives. ''

    The Antiquary 1845

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