单词 | lyrist |
例句 | My heroes are Irving Berlin and Cole Porter — those economic lyrists who nailed a sentiment in a scene through a song. Johnny Flynn on making the crime musical "The Score," in which characters perform songs he wrote 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Famously, Orfeo, a master poet, singer and lyrist, convincingly serenades Caronte, followed by Pluto, lord of the underworld, begging that love beat death, that his wife go home with him across the river. In 'The Shades,' a family is haunted by their daughter's death 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z A lyrist playing to a herd of cows masticating their own ignorance, Bella often thought. “A Small Flame” 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z As a pastoral lyrist Herrick stands first among English poets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z His performance on the harp was considered in those days, when taste, feeling, and expression, were the characteristic features of a lyrist, to be very superior. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z A rain of aristocratic poems followed, for a Spaniard is a lyrist born, and turns from prose to verse as easily as he changes his cuffs. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The earlier poems, "Salt Water Ballads" are good, but do not rise above the chorus of minor lyrists. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z With a few fiery songs he placed himself at the head of the small group of naval lyrists, a position which even to-day he has not wholly lost. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z Simonides is the first Greek lyrist whose significance is not merely Aeolian or Dorian but Panhellenic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z We read some of the medi�val lyrists without feeling sure that we detect a single genuine personal note; they had little of our modern sense of individuality. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Here, too, the choruses blend with the action, and are unsurpassed for melody, sweetness, and tenderness, proclaiming their author as the foremost lyrist of his nation. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Whether in Scotland or England, the mavis, or thrush, is one of the especial favourites of the pastoral poet and lyrist. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Especially in the case of the religious and ethical lyrist is faith life, and doubt death. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z A skillful lyrist whose airy gracefulness will always continue to delight. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z When Professor Boyesen visited Hugo some ten years ago he found that the great French lyrist had never heard of Emerson. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z It is no task to be confided to an amateur play-maker, to a mere lyrist, ignorant of the art of the theater. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z But the greatest of the lyrists, who wrote the Odes to Liberty and Naples and the West Wind, found the limits even of the ode too narrow for his ‘flight of fire.’ Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z These two dramas—I dare not say two masterpieces—set in a framework of history, which in itself is infinitely precious, form the legacy left by the great lyrist to the theatre of his country. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z But no voice, save those of a few melodious brothers, cheered the lonely lyrist, who had sung on every mountain, and whose verse had flowed with every river. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z She is best as a lyrist, and some of her poems are touched with a very fine and true pathos. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z "Before everything I am enamoured of thy blonde tresses," says one lyrist. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z As a poet, Mr. Thackeray praised Prior highly, calling him the most charming of English lyrists, and comparing him with Horace on one side and Moore on the other. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z The canon of Alexandria does not include among the nine greater lyrists the name of Erinna of Rhodes, who died too young, in the maiden glory of her youth and fame. Love, Worship and Death Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology 2011-04-21T02:00:45.290Z For a while, however, the Florentines were well prepared to give an intellectual significance,-64- and with it a new life, to the outworn conventions of the Italo-Provençal lyrists. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z We can, with comparative ease, recognise Burns himself in his works; for Burns is a lyrist, pouring out his own feelings in song, often alluding to himself, and generally under personal agitation when he writes. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Thus his work, already vastly removed from that of the other lyrists of our time, is seen to be still more isolated. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z The elegy, in its calm movement, seems to have begun to lose currency when the ecstasy of emotion was more successfully interpreted by the various rhythmic and dithyrambic inventions of the Aeolic lyrists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z He remains nevertheless essentially a lyrist, a maker of songs; a thorough artist who has seriousness, dignity, and charm. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 It is Petrarch's peculiar glory to have held two equally illustrious places in the history of modern civilization, as the final lyrist of chivalrous love and as the founder of the Renaissance. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z "What are they?" one who knows Mr. Carman only as, say, a lyrist of spring or as a singer of the delights of vagabondia probably will ask in some wonder. Later Poems Many possibilities of contemplation are open to the thinker, to the quiet observer; to the poet however, to the lyrist, only a poetic philosophy of life is possible, a contemplation lyrically exalted. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Passion had never lost itself in arid decoration when they sang; nor yet had it ever betrayed itself with that impudently direct appeal these modern lyrists made, these shameless Rousseaus of verse. Plashers Mead A Novel Gosse as a poet may be described as a lyrist with attractive descriptive powers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The chivalrous element of love which pervades the Arthurian Cycle, had been extracted and treated after their own -440-fashion by the lyrists of the fourteenth century. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The impossibility was not recognised, and France, in the opinion of her own critics, at last got her epic poem in the Henriade, and her perfect lyrists in Rousseau and Lebrun. A Short History of French Literature A lyric art can only grow to such intentions as these from emotions not felt by other lyrists. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z B�ranger, the greatest poet of France of our era, was a mere song-writer; and Heine, the pride of young Germany, a mere satirist and lyrist. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. At the same time his verse is studded with fiery beauties and sudden felicities of language, unsurpassed by any lyrist between his own time and Shelley’s. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" There is a passage in the De Remediis utriusque Fortunæ, where the lyrist of chivalrous love pours such contempt on women as his friend Boccaccio might have envied. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The greatest poet of the lyric age, the lyrist par excellence Pindar, adds much to our conception of Greek love at this period. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion Himself a lyrist of distinction, Stefan Zweig has accomplished the difficult feat, which in this country still waits to be done, of translating the great mass of Verhaeren's poems into actual and enduring verse. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z He is one of the few supreme lyrists ... and one of the few remaining lovers of beauty ... who write it. Sea Poems He divides with Gray the glory of being the greatest English lyrist of the 18th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Ill-fated impious race, That blasphemed the bright lyrist to his face, And did not know it! Life of John Keats And it is curious, in looking over the collections of early Italian lyrists, to note the alteration in tone as Sicily and the feudal courts are left further and further behind. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II His extant shorter poems, however, whether early or late, offer no excuse for claiming high rank for him as a lyrist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Could a collection of these mournful melodies have been made, and these lorn lyrists have been induced to glance over it, it seems to us that they must have received it with inextinguishable laughter. Home Life of Great Authors How could that lyrist be harsh in his diction, who almost draws tears from our eyes, while his melodious lines and picturing epithets are remembered by his readers? Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The great master thereof in the early Renaissance, the lyrist, if I may use the word, of the fifteenth century, is of course Botticelli. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion They are pleasant, even occasionally beautiful, but they are empty, lamentably empty, charming arrangements of words; poetry which fills our mind or touches our heart comes only with the Tuscan lyrists of the thirteenth century. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II Jens Baggesen is the greatest comic poet that Denmark has produced; and as a satirist and witty lyrist he has no rival among the Danes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" "An April Memory" acquaints us with W. Frank Booker, a gifted lyrist whose lines possess all the warmth, witchery and grace of his native Southland. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The jungle on either side was brilliant with color and resonant with the songs of forest lyrists. Carmen Ariza A young writer can gain more from the study of a literary poet than from the study of a lyrist. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies The reproach had a justice in it that must have stung, and made the lyrist wish to be an atomic theorist at any cost. Imaginary Interviews He was, without compeer, the greatest pastoral lyrist of Denmark. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" These four groups are the sonneteers, the historians, the satirists, and lastly, the miscellaneous lyrists and poetical miscellanists. A History of Elizabethan Literature Thomas Lodge, one of the most brilliant of Elizabethan lyrists. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age But then the moment p. 176that Shakespeare descended from those heights whether his metaphysical imagination had borne him, he became, not a lyrist, as Tennyson became, but a dramatist. Old Familiar Faces But the ode, in a more or less irregular form, whether pæan or threnody, has been the instrument of several of our leading lyrists. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature "The singing-skill of god Apollo's giving" Is his, however, and no lyrist living Hath such a stretch of finger, or such tone. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 When my notes were made the little lyrist was putting his best foot forward, and was not high in the trees, so that I heard him distinctly. Our Bird Comrades In Elizabeth’s days composers were not content to regard the words of a song as a mere peg on which to hang the music, but sought the services of true-born lyrists. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age It would be difficult to find a finer lyrist among the mountains. Birds of the Rockies How divine have been the methods of the Victorian lyrists may easily be exemplified:— Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature As the noble words of the Greek lyrist rolled with an indescribable gusto from the lips of Milton, it seemed to the Rosicrucian that he had never before comprehended the true euphony of the language. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Just so the lyrists of fields and woods pipe their roundels and chansons through the chink in their throats, save that in the bird's case the mouth and tongue are anterior to the whistling aperture. Our Bird Comrades And yet, as chosen lyrist of the Roman race, he cannot altogether refuse the call. Horace Although I turned aside and sought diligently, I could not find the shy lyrist. Birds of the Rockies Eric Mackay is a lyrist with a singing faculty and a novel metrical form such as few lyrists have at command. The Song of the Flag A National Ode Yet here, again, I must find fault with Campbell, splendid lyrist as he is. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland The verse marks one of the highest reaches of a genius honored abroad as a world-great lyrist. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In the words of the sacred lyrist, Edgar A. Poe, 'My country, 't is of thee,' that I shall now display some views. Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" A few minutes of hard climbing brought me near enough to get my glass on the little lyrist, and then I found it was only the house-wren! Birds of the Rockies How is it that a writer once known as the greatest master of English prose, and a poet once named the most conspicuous of English lyrists, are now but names? John Lyly And so with living lyrists each after his kind. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation The little encore song, which generally appeared anonymously, was the opening wedge for the American lyrist. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Its epic poets are followed by the lyrists and these by the tragedians: tragedy passes into the New Comedy, which is followed by the learned and artistic poetry of Alexandria. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield He is the possessor of a clear, musical voice, and if he had the vocal organs of some of the oscines, he certainly would be one of the best feathered lyrists of America. Birds of the Rockies The poet is, of course, at his best immortal—time cannot stale Beowulf, or the nameless lyrists of the fourteenth century, or Chaucer, or Spenser, and so with the rest, la mort n'y mord. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) And if we wish to find Love enjoying his just supremacy in poetry, we cannot do better than seek him among the lyrists of the Court of Charles II. Milton In the same vein are various songs of Herrick, a lyrist whose verse is not usu88ally congenial to the modern music-maker. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions A beautiful lyrist, a writer of charming, morbid, and magnificent poetry in dramatic form, Beddoes will survive to students, not to readers, of English poetry, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Ebenezer Jones and Charles Wells. Figures of Several Centuries Every observer of eastern feathered folk is familiar with our "little boy blue," the indigo-bird, whose song is such a rollicking and saucy air, making you feel as if the little lyrist were chaffing you. Birds of the Rockies There is plenty, then, for the present race of Irish lyrists to do. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry The Parisian did not cease to be a Provençal; and the novelist was a lyrist still. The Nabob, Volume 1 They have occasionally a quaint, antique flavor, suggesting the diction of the Elizabethan lyrists, but without their delicate, elusive richness of melody. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Among Björnson's predecessors there are but two lyrists of the first order, viz., Essays on Scandinavian Literature I did settle it to my great satisfaction, for, after no little effort, I succeeded in obtaining a plain view of the elusive little lyrist, and, sure enough, it proved to be the lazuli finch. Birds of the Rockies Since Sappho loved and sang, there has been no such national lyrist as Burns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Few of these lyrists belonged to Greece proper. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century One of the most important passages in Greek literature, in whatever aspect viewed, is composed of the writings of the great Theban lyrist. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Holger Drachmann, in his capacity of lyrist, has also a strain of the Hamlet nature; although, in the case of a poet, whose verses are in themselves deeds, the assertion contains no reproach. Essays on Scandinavian Literature He feels the various emotions of a hundred lyrists. Platform Monologues I do not think the style of the poem on the Order, though it belongs to a good period, justifies our ascribing it to so inspired and genial a lyrist. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse More than one lyrist—as Archilochus and Horace may bear witness—has thrown away his shield on the field of battle. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors He is dramatist, humorist, lyrist, painter, musician, philosopher and scholar, each in full measure, and he includes and dominates them all. An Introduction to the Study of Browning In their clean-cut, abrupt, epigrammatic force there is something different from the work of any other musical lyrist. The Great German Composers Even lyric poetry is estimated by its fervor and by its sincerity rather than by the dulcet phrases in which the lyrist has voiced his emotion of the moment. Inquiries and Opinions Moore was another lyrist whose poetry Scott greatly admired. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature But how quickly were those feelings displaced by joy when he named to me the great national lyrist of France, the unequalled Béranger. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe For in spite of detraction, Walter Scott remains one of the foremost British lyrists. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century This dwelling, having long lain untenanted, has a back door that stands ajar and we piloted the awe-struck lyrist inside. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Collins' derangement and early death stopped the unfolding of many buds of promise in this rarely endowed lyrist. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century After Homer and Hesiod, among the Greek poets, come the lyrists. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology But to compare Ronsard's sonnet with 'Follow your saint' is to see how infinitely more subtle a master of lyrical music was the Elizabethan than the great French lyrist of the Renaissance. Aspects of Literature Of character, he can scarcely be said to have anything marked; and his part rises to its height precisely in that passage where the lyrist has to be displayed. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series For a young writer can gain more from the study of a literary poet than from the study of a lyrist. Reviews He was also an amatory lyrist, but closed his career as the writer of some fine religious verses, notably this "Death-Bed Confession." A Celtic Psaltery Him too, never celebrated by any other tongue, I the Roman lyrist first made known. The Works of Horace Fleming too, who already stood much higher as a lyrist and had travelled widely, lacked the power of describing scenery, and must needs call Oreads, Dryads, Castor and Pollux to his aid. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Passing to contemporary poets, Rossetti has acclimatised in English the metres and the manner of the earliest Italian lyrists. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series He was simply an extraordinarily gifted author, a perfect versifier, a wondrous lyrist, and a delicious raconteur, endowed with a grace, ease and power of expression that delighted even the exacting artistic sense of Turgenev. Best Russian Short Stories Posterity has signally reversed the judgment of his contemporaries, and has placed him at the head of the lyrists of his age. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature But those feelings were quickly displaced by joy, when he named to me the great national lyrist of France, the great Béranger. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II We have considered Shakespeare's plays; English lyrists too of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries shewed deep feeling for Nature, and invested scenery with their own feelings in a very delicate way. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times But the mere overflow of careless poetic power which is manifested by Aristophanes would have sufficed to set up any ordinary tragedian or lyrist. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 With deliberate didactic purpose the tragedians—with pure and native passion the lyrists —fitted their perfect words to their dearest faiths. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm As a lyrist, however, he stands much higher, and in such gems as "Proud Maisie" and "A weary lot is thine, Fair Maid," he takes his place among our greatest singers. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Wingèd minstrels come and play Through the woods their roundelay; Who can tell but only thou, Spirit-ear'd, inspirèd May, On the bud-embow'rèd bough What the happy lyrists say? Poems It was by dint of his genius for expression, the gift of finding the one right word, that he became the world's greatest lyrist: what he felt became a poem, what he saw a picture. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times There are doubtless many to whom Blake is known simply as a charming and splendid lyrist, as the author of Infant Joy, and The Tyger, and the rest of the Songs of Innocence and Experience. Books and Characters French and English For about two thousand five hundred years Sappho has held her place as not only the supreme poet of her sex, but the chief lyrist of all lyrists. Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics He is the first Scottish lyrist and the introducer of the pastoral to English literature. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Ah! when thou trillest that triumphant strain To all the listening lyrists of the grove, Thou fill'st my heart with envy and with pain! The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome Still more like a brilliant meteor that flashes and is gone was Shelley, the most highly strung of all modern lyrists. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Miss Ingelow may be termed an idyllic lyrist, her lyrical pieces having always much idyllic beauty. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous Such pieces as his Love's Triumph, Hymn to Diana, the adaptation from Philostratus, Drink to me only with thine eyes, and many others entitle their author to rank among the first of English lyrists. From Chaucer to Tennyson As one lyrist puts it: Let Beef and Butter, Rolls and Rabbits fade, But give me back my love, my Marmalade. Mr. Punch's History of the Great War Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, was this lyrist of luxurious ecstasy. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts He was a true lyrist, familiar both with the external life of Nature and the inner life of man. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Pause, and scan well Archilochus, the bard of elder days, By east and west Alike's confest The mighty lyrist's praise. Theocritus, translated into English Verse As a lyrist Scott especially excelled, and as a novelist he takes rank among the foremost. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction And where the sonneteers pretended to a sincerity which was none of theirs, he was, like Browning, unaffectedly a dramatic lyrist. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge From this time forth he was the prince of German lyrists. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. As a fact, even the greatest Minnesinger, Walther, the master lyrist of the thirteenth century, was not ahead of his contemporaries in this matter. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times But in the pity almost divine with which Hood sings her fate there is not only a spotless delicacy, there is also a morality as elevated as the heavenly mercy which the lyrist breathes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 When the future lyrist was fifteen months old his father, Nicholas Herrick, made his will, and immediately fell out of an upper window. Ponkapog Papers Here the Emperor sent his minister for Li Po, and here the great lyrist set her mortal beauty to glow from the scented, flower-haunted balustrade immortally through the twilights yet to come. A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China There is no mistaking the affectation of an urban lyrist, whose lovers masquerade as shepherds in the court of Louis XIV. The Book of Delight and Other Papers By aid of these funds, lyrists and ballad-writers unable to find publishers would be held on their onward path. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Yet they are no more hollow than the lyrics of Goethe or Heine or Shelley, though the illusion of sincerity is less perfect than in the work of these great lyrists. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The lyrist may speak in character, like the dramatist. Ponkapog Papers The Aeolian lyrists of Lesbos founded a school of their own. Outline of Universal History The author terminated his wedding year with the "Ode to Louis XVIII.," read to a society after the President of the Academy had introduced him as "the most promising of our young lyrists." Poems Contemporary lyrists have left no variety of physical sensation unnoted: they tell us precisely how they feel and look when they take their morning tub. A Study of Poetry These qualities of the youthful Schiller's poetry foretell that he will never be a great lyrist, but they promise well enough for the poetic tale. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller It is of the lyrist and not of the man I am speaking here. Ponkapog Papers In spite of his preoccupation with the exact value of oral words, he is not a singing lyrist. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Like the two greatest lyrists of modern times, Burns and Béranger, Horace sprang from the ranks of the people. Horace Yet a lyrist like Keats, it must be remembered, betrayed his personality not so much through any external peculiarity of the Romantic temperament as through the actual texture of his word and phrase and rhythm. A Study of Poetry The spontaneity, or seeming spontaneity, of the great lyrists was no part of his gift. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The last important group among these lyrists is that of the more distinctly religious poets. A History of English Literature Had we only his minor poems, he would rank as the first of lyrists. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam Of lyrists," says Quintilian, "Horace is alone, one might say, worthy to be read. Horace It is true that the born lyrists betray themselves constantly, that they suffuse both the world of repose and the world of action with the coloring of their own unquiet spirits. A Study of Poetry The sonnet fell into disfavor with the majority of lyrists. Halleck's New English Literature Moore was termed a 'lyrist,' and here we are told about his lyre. Adonais To the lyrist he added the dramatist, to the dramatist the novelist, to the novelist the mystic seer, and to all these the naturalist and scientific discoverer. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam Like these great lyrists, too, Horace was proud of his origin. Horace It is literally true that natural lyrists like Sappho, Burns, Goethe, Heine, "sing as the bird sings." A Study of Poetry His verse, which is elemental, full of enthusiasm and beauty, often reminds us of the work of the thirteenth-century lyrists. Halleck's New English Literature From her wilds Ierne sent The sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong, And love taught grief to fall like music from his tongue. Adonais By the force of his originality Pindar gave lyrical poetry a wholly new direction, and, coming last of the great Dorian lyrists, taught posterity what sort of thing an ode should be. Mosaics of Grecian History The names of statesmen and generals become dim except to professed historians, while the memories of great romancers and lyrists, and even of lesser writers still, go on being revived and redecorated. Escape, and Other Essays The lyrist is born and not made, and he cannot help transforming the actual world into his own world, like Don Quixote with the windmills and the serving-women. A Study of Poetry We do not know the names of any of these singers, but they were worthy forerunners of the later lyrists of love and nature. Halleck's New English Literature The first is a description of Shelley himself following Byron and Moore—the "Pilgrim of Eternity," and Ierne's "sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong"—to the couch where Keats lies dead. Percy Bysshe Shelley Thus spoke the king: the observant train obey, At once they bathe, and dress in proud array: The lyrist strikes the string; gay youths advance, And fair-zoned damsels form the sprightly dance. The Odyssey On this question, and on the real worth of the seventeenth century lyrists, a great deal has to be said hereafter. Plays and Puritans But when the question arose whether he was not only a lyrist but a poet, we were obliged to confess that he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man. Essays — Second Series What Elizabethan lyrists had most influence on these poets? Halleck's New English Literature His favourite authors are the bright lyrists who sing of broken hearts, wasted lives, early deaths, disappointment, gloom. How to Fail in Literature; a lecture "Those are wished on me by the lyrist." A Damsel in Distress The Elizabethan lyrist is safe among lilies and cherries, roses, pearls, and snow. The Children Love-the love of feudal chivalry—patriotism, and religion were the themes that employed the mediaeval lyrist in whatever country he sang. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages What are some of the special defects of the lyrists of this age? Halleck's New English Literature In these, as in all Mr. Bridges’s poems, there is a certain austere and indifferent beauty of diction and a memory of the old English poets, Milton and the earlier lyrists. Letters on Literature Banished is the white Foam-born Not from here, nor under ban Phoebus lyrist, Phoebe's horn, Pipings of the reedy Pan. Poems — Volume 2 A merry heart goes all the day; the lyrist’s never grew weary. The Spirit of Place and Other Essays She goes on dancing or scolding, as the case may be, and the lyrist goes on boasting of his constancy, or suddenly renounces it for a day. The Spirit of Place and Other Essays But taking her as the perfectly unanimous conception of the lyrists, how is it she did not discover these things unaided? The Spirit of Place and Other Essays But enough of the poets of old; another day we may turn to Carew and Suckling, Praed and Locker, poets of our own speech, lighter lyrists of our own time. Letters on Literature This was no lady of the unanimous lyrists, but a rare visitant unknown to these exquisite little talents. The Spirit of Place and Other Essays The lyrist complains to Love, pities Love for her scorning, and threatens to go away with Love, who is on his side. The Spirit of Place and Other Essays It was scarcely necessary to waste the lyrist’s time—time that went so gaily to metre as not to brook delays—in making her out too clearly. The Spirit of Place and Other Essays When the poet groans it seems that she has laughed at him; when he flouts her, we may understand that she has chidden her lyrist in no temperate terms. The Spirit of Place and Other Essays It was not parting that the lyrists sang of; it was the mere simplicity of death. The Spirit of Place and Other Essays |
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