muses

• I got him with a letter recommending him as a sort of happy combination of the three wise men of the East and the nine muses, and I got rid of him with one in which I allowed that he was the whole dozen. —  Old Gorgon Graham
• It was exhibited in a private house in Ferrara The father of the Tuscan muses, the sublime but unequal Dante, had pronounced that Ferrara was never honoured with the name of a poet; he would have been astonished to behold the chorus of bards, of melodious swans (their own allusion), which now peopled the banks of the Po. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gibbon, by James Cotter Morison
• These reasons I beg leave to offer as an apology   for my silence until now It would be a pity indeed, my dear madam, if the muses should be   restrained in you; it is only to be regretted that the hero of your   poetical talents is not more deserving their lays. —  George Washington, Vol. II
• The remains of this son of the muses were, with very little ceremony, hurried away by the parish officers, and thrown amongst common beggars; though with this distinction, that the service of the church was performed over his corpse. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), Vol. V.
• Not one of the nine muses, but a name from an earlier era, where the muses were thought to be three: Melete of “practicing,” Mneme of “remembering,” and Aoide of Hockenberry, I was able to see you in the Hall of the Gods,” says Aphrodite, blinking me out of my scholic reverie, “and if I had pointed you out to Lord Zeus, you would be something less than ashes now. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium

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