Word: musing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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...
...writing prose, both in improving the style and in supplying the article with ideas which make it interesting in itself, without regard to the subject discussed. Too many having such talents imagine themselves to be gifted with "the vision and the faculty divine," to be moved by the same muse that inspired Shakespeare, while in reality their powers lie solely in an aptness for rhyme and a quite common talent for versification...
...muse is still a voiceless muse...