Word: muses
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Patient reader, I look forward with you to the time when the virtues of the goody may be extolled by the collegiate muse, and when we shall recognize in the neatness and order of our rooms the beneficent hand of an "efficient" goody...
...Muse's troop regard its worth...
...lighter muse they turn...
...poetical nature of the book is also to be noticed, which is a rare merit in a work of this nature. The divinus afflatus has rarely inspired a man to indite odes to his mother-in-law, and almost as rarely does the gentle muse of poetry venture over into the stern and barren fields of philosophy. It has been said that Locke only needed rhyme to become a poet. We submit respectfully to the author the propriety of turning his work into a metrical form. To revel in a lyric on the "Complex Modes of Extension or Duration...
...dearth of poetry in the Williams papers is at last accounted for. An editorial advice to the contributors of the Review says, "If you send poetry, write it as carefully as possible, and enclose a postage stamp." The Review is evidently severe on the poetic muse...