Which preposition to use with mused

of Occurrences 111%

The first is one of the nine Muses, the Muse of Astronomy: the second is Aphrodite (Venus).

on Occurrences 101%

A long time, I mused on the subject.

in Occurrences 59%

But when the Dean mused in solitude over the execution of his plan, it assumed at once a more grand and a darker complexion.

over Occurrences 48%

I love to wander and muse over them in their graves.

for Occurrences 27%

He sat musing for so long that she finally remembered it was growing late, and began to fear Patsy and Beth would seek their rooms, which connected with her own, and find her absent.

with Occurrences 21%

Love, obedience, and devotion unto death, are here portrayed; and yet people will repeat the lines of the melancholy muse with a smile on their faces, and even teach it to their young children as a sort of joyful lyric.

to Occurrences 17%

He wrote prettily, and would sing these efforts of his muse to music of his own, drawing crowds around his windows, in the stillness of the night, to listen to sounds as melodious as they were mournful.

at Occurrences 11%

But what, methinks my shepherd is not come; I muse at that, the hour is sure at hand.

about Occurrences 9%

Cartwright mused about Oreana and pictured Davies sheltering behind the wind-screens on his bridge and trying to pierce the snow, and the look-out man half frozen in the spray that leaped about the forecastle.

by Occurrences 8%

One day as she sat musing by the waters of Helicon, her tears by chance fell into the spring; and ever since, the muses' spring has tasted of the infusion.

from Occurrences 6%

But if thy proud, aspiring soul disdains So mean a prey, delighted with the pomp, Magnificence and grandeur of the chase; 300 Hear what the Muse from faithful records sings.

into Occurrences 5%

Fall then to work in thy old age agen, Take up thy trug and trowel, gentle Ben, Let plays alone; or if thou need'st will write, And thrust thy feeble muse into the light; Let Lowen cease, and Taylor scorn to touch, The loathed stage, for thou hast made it such.

within Occurrences 3%

These thoughts filled and racked his brain as he sat drinking rum and water in the bar of the Green Man on Christmas evening; a solitary man, mixing little with the people of the village, he sat apart at a small table in the corner, musing within himself, yet idly watching the companyvillagers, a few friends from London and elsewhere, some soldiers and their ladies.

like Occurrences 3%

Beaumont lyes here; and where now shall we have A Muse like his to sigh upon his grave?

amidst Occurrences 3%

In his Journal he tells us how his vague resolutions were brought to a focus: It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

as Occurrences 2%

We may well salute the three Graces and the nine Muses as gracious emblems, but it is far better to discern in art, the reflected image of the triple celestial hierarchy with its nine angel choruses.

along Occurrences 2%

It chanced one evening, ('twas the lover's day) Conceal'd in brakes the jealous kindred lay; When Hesiod, wandering, mused along the plain, And fix'd his seat where Love had fix'd the scene: A strong suspicion straight possess'd their mind, (For poets ever were a gentle kind.)

than Occurrences 2%

Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse: "Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will, And, reconciled, keep him suspected still, Make him lose all his friends, and, what is worse, Almost all ways to any better course; With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee, And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty.

through Occurrences 2%

It is sweet indeed to go, Musing through the lawny vale: alluded to by Warton, or over Milton's "level downs," or to climb up Thomson's Stupendous rocks

under Occurrences 2%

And though the fury of a Civil War, and power (for twenty years together [1640-1660 A.D.]) abandoned to a barbarous race of men, enemies of all good learning[10], had buried the Muses under the ruins of Monarchy: yet, with the Restoration of our happiness [1660], we see revived Poesy lifting up its head, and already shaking off the rubbish, which lay so heavy upon it.

beneath Occurrences 1%

Thy fairy haunts, where solitude pervades The feelings like a spirit, might allure Some visionary youth to muse beneath

before Occurrences 1%

I never turned my face up to the sky to watch the passing of a cloud, or mused before the undulating space of sea, or looked down upon the earth with the curiosity of thought, or spiritual aspiration.

above Occurrences 1%

I mused above his ashes till the music ceased and then left the Cathedral, that nothing might break the romantic spell associated with that crumbling pile and the dead it covered.

among Occurrences 1%

We passed an old man musing among laurels, I remember, and a place gay with paroquets, and came through a broad shaded colonnade to a spacious cool palace, full of pleasant fountains, full of beautiful things, full of the quality and promise of heart's desire.

beside Occurrences 1%

We muse beside the rolling waves; We ponder on the grassy hill; We linger by the new-piled graves, And find that star is shining still.

Which preposition to use with  mused