Mused Quotes
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain …
— John Keats in "Ode to a Nightingale".
Still, as I mused, the naked room,The alien firelight died away;And from the midst of cheerless gloomI passed to bright, unclouded day.
emily brontë— Stanza vi.
As he mused about these things, he realised that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
paulo coelho— p. 44 (The Alchemist (1988))
“Let’s waste a little time, hmm?” “A nice euphemism, sir,” she mused distantly. He smiled. “Come and help me think of better ones.” She smiled and they both looked at each other. There was a long pause.
iain banks— Chapter IX (p. 157)
“If the heat doesn’t kill you,” he mused, “the flies surely will.”
stephen r. lawhead— p. 223 (The Skin Map (2010))
How very bright this empire of stars, he mused. Which poet had said that?
stephen r. lawhead— p. 55 (The Bone House (2011))
And thus He mused: "From here, indeed Shall we strike terror in the Swede? And here a city by our labor Founded, shall gall our haughty neighbor; "Here cut" - so Nature gives command - Your window through on Europe; stand Firm-footed by the sea, unchanging!
aleksandr pushkin— The Bronze Horseman (1833)
And thus He mused: "From here, indeed Shall we strike terror in the Swede? And here a city by our labor Founded, shall gall our haughty neighbor; "Here cut" - so Nature gives command - Your window through on Europe; stand Firm-footed by the sea, unchanging!
— The Bronze Horseman (1833)
“There’s only one way to guard a secret so effectively that no one can misuse it to his own advantage and the detriment of others,” Kennedy mused slowly, “And that’s to give it away make it open knowledge. Give it to everybody.” “Scientists have known that for a long time,” Hoskins said, “That’s why we keep insisting on free trade of ideas.”
— p. 180 (They'd Rather Be Right (1954))
Slow sail'd the weary mariners and saw, Betwixt the green brink and the running foam, Sweet faces, rounded arms, and bosoms prest To little harps of gold; and while they mused Whispering to each other half in fear, Shrill music reach'd them on the middle sea.
— Alfred Tennyson, The Sea Fairies; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 511.
But Lancelot mused a little space; He said,'She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.'
Tennyson— 1832 Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.4, l.168-71.
