| 单词 | the muses |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Muses b. the Muses: the liberal arts; polite literature, belles-lettres. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] writing1340 scripturea1382 scripturea1382 scrowsa1513 stuff1542 the republic of letters1677 belles-lettres1710 literature1711 the Muses1838 lit.1850 letters1916 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xiii. 81 War..be opposit to learning, bycause it is enemie to the Muses. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §3 It is not mere zeal to learning, or devotion to the Muses, that wiser princes patron the arts. View more context for this quotation a1662 T. Craufurd Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1808) 77 In bestowing upon the Colledge an honest residence for the Muses. 1705 J. Dunton Life & Errors iv. 247 Mr. Ames..had always some Yammerings upon him after Learning and the Muses. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. x. 270 The barbarians became masters of the native seat of the muses and the arts. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xi. 58 The leisure of his retirement from public life was to the last devoted to the muses. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Epil. of Cigar Divan in More New Arabian Nights 199 ‘One moment, till I finish the octave of my sonnet..’ And with a friendly waggle of the hand, he once more buried himself in the commerce of the Muses. 1994 Aquinas Rev. 1 54 But high hope of fame has struck my heart with its sharp goad and in so doing has implanted in my breast the sweet love of the Muses. < as lemmas |
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