museful

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The museful, meditative spirit passes from one object of its wonder to another, and finds, at every pause it makes, that science is as strenuous in forbidding as in satisfying enquiry.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

Forever smiling thro' its season brief, The one in glory and the one in grief: Forever painting to our museful sight, How lowlihead and loveliness unite.

From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George

Not so the museful sage:—abroad he walks Contemplative, if haply he may find What cause controls the tempest's rage, or whence, Amidst the savage season, Winter smiles.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert

Then to the servile task the monarch turns His royal hands: each torch refulgent burns With added day: meanwhile in museful mood, Absorb'd in thought, on vengeance fix'd he stood.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

She led him, in museful silence, At once through the open door, And his hope grew bright, like a fairy light, That flickered and danced before!

From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence