单词 | the nine muses |
释义 | > as lemmasthe nine Muses b. Classical Mythology. the nine Muses: the nine Muses of arts and learning. Also in allusive and extended use. Cf. the Nine at sense B. 2b, muse n.1 1a. ΚΠ a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 828 (MED) Ne ther was none of the musys nyne By on accord to make melodye. c1450 Contin. Lydgate's Secrees (Sloane 2464) 1516 (MED) These Sevene Sustryn..Yif I my penne to this matere doo applye, The nyne musys blame shal..That they vnlabouryd stant on my partye. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. f. 137v Therfore there were diuised to be nyne Muses, whiche also for the resemblaunce of their disposition were fayned by the poetes to be nyne virgines, that firste inuented all lyberall sciences. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon sig. Av A pot of blew burning ale, with a fierie flaming tost, is as good as Pallas with the nine Muses on Pernassus top. 1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. C4 Musique and this Song as an Inuocation to the nine Muses; (who in the time) are discouer'd on the vpper Stage, plac'd by the nine Worthies, and toward the conclusion descend, each one led by a Muse. 1677 Duke of Newcastle & T. Shadwell Triumphant Widow iii. 55 I have an excellent Song, how the nine Muses invited a Poet to Dinner. 1757 J. Maclaurin Deposition i. 7 We were a fairer spectacle to see, Than the nine muses, with their president Apollo, though they are divinities, And we but mortal men. a1777 S. Foote Maid of Bath (1778) ii. i. 40 Enchanting! ravishing sounds! not the Nine Muses themselves, nor Mrs. Baddeley, is equal to you. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xlix. 490 Melt all these down into one, with the three Graces, the nine Muses, and fourteen biscuit-bakers' daughters from Oxford-street, and make a woman half as lovely. 1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster II. xv. 77 It has been held that from Venus..are born..the nine Muses, who are, in fact, Poetry, Music, Dancing, Acting, Gallantry, Courtesy, Politeness, Courtship, and Intrigue, and not Thalia and her sisters at all, unless they can be proved to have those attributes. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 463 Plaster figures, also naked, representing the new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Speech, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People. 1953 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1994) II. 1370 It's the Castle Esplanade for fules like me For a Ghurka band's worth mair Than a' the nine muses there! 1993 D. Dunn Dante's Drum-kit I. 18 At the unfashionable end of the book trade I offer up these prayers to The Nine Muses. < as lemmas |
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