Word: muses
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Reynard the Fox has been given the Laureate's Chair by the King; Dauber has left the salt sea for the National Muse; King Cole has been given a throne...
...learned heads respect, and student heads headache at the mention of his name, but he must also put into practise, a step anomalous for a professor, the facts that he has garnered. While in his all-too-short sojourn at Harvard history in the making lives as a naked muse before his classes. And so the Vagabond doffs an imaginary hat to Professor Webster and wishes him all social and diplomatic success at emperors garden parties...
...these discomforts over, the remainder of Mr. de la Mare's essay expresses a sensitive poet's delicate admiration of these notes flung from the throat of the greatest songster of them all-the Muse's charm flowering in the lonely word, and the essential 'rightness' of this word that is Shakespere's and no other's. Screened through the younger poet's interpretation, we reread the songs with new delight...
This conception of the University as a vast hive of little brain cells has of course great value as an antidote for the football, pleasure and leisure mad undergraduate. Before many the academic muse can only gape, sigh, and pass on. For these even the shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan...
...Fringe. Last week, before the tabulation of poems could begin, a choir intoned five times the Sub lime Emperor's own treatment of the theme, lines which, needless to say, will not be judged. With his royal brush the Son of Heaven had painted ideographs meaning: I muse on the strength of the rocks Enduring the ceaseless beating of the waves On the rugged shores. There was no more, for poems in the best Japanese classic style of vers de societe are always short, frequently epigram matic. Such poems are intended not to mirror thought, but to stimulate...