Him too, never celebrated by any other tongue, I the Roman lyrist first made known.
Thou lyrist Phoebus, tutor of the harmonious Thalia, who bathest thy locks in the river Xanthus, O delicate Agyieus, support the dignity of the Latian muse.
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.
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.
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.
Writing in 1595, Guarini avers that 'poetry has been my pastime, never my profession'; and yet he made it his business at Ferrara to rival Tasso both as a lyrist and as a servant of dames.
Her lyrist had to sing of pallone-matches instead of Panhellenic games; to celebrate the heroic conquest of two Turkish galleys by a Tuscan fleet, instead of Marathon and Salamis; to praise S.
In another place Tassoni stated, 'It was never my intention to speak evil of this poet [Petrarch], whom I have always admired above any lyrist of ancient or modern times.
There is a passage in the De Remediis utriusque Fortunae, where the lyristof chivalrous love pours such contempt on women as his friend Boccaccio might have envied.
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.
On taking leave of him, Byron presented the Irish lyrist with the MS.
As a fact, even the greatest Minnesinger, Walther, the masterlyrist of the thirteenth century, was not ahead of his contemporaries in this matter.
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.
For in order to express the phenomenon of music in pictures, the lyrist requires all the stirrings of passion, from the whispering of infant desire to the roaring of madness.
The poems of the lyrist can express nothing which has not already been contained in the vast universality and absoluteness of the music which compelled him to use figurative speech.
I" of his own accord, this appearance will no longer be able to lead us astray, as it certainly led those astray who designated the lyrist as the subjective poet.
He was not a lyrist born: he had little ear for music, and he blended meters and made rimes seemingly with the eye alone.
He is a lyrist who struck a few true notes, a half dozen perhaps--thin indeed in volume, but those few immortal.
Her muse was remote, unimpassioned, classical, yet no lyrist of the period has had more of the divine poetic gift of expression.
Russell was a lyrist with the gift of intuition and improvisation; Harris was a deliberate recorder.
It is of the lyrist and not of the man I am speaking here.
The lyrist may speak in character, like the dramatist.
When the future lyrist was fifteen months old his father, Nicholas Herrick, made his will, and immediately fell out of an upper window.
From her wilds Ierne sent The sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong, And love taught grief to fall like music from his tongue.
The greatest poet of the lyric age, the lyrist par excellence Pindar, adds much to our conception of Greek love at this period.
Of Ibycus, who was celebrated among the ancients as the lyrist of paiderastia,[69] very little has been preserved to us, but that little is sufficient to indicate the fervid and voluptuous style of his art.
The lyrist complains to Love, pities Love for her scorning, and threatens to go away with Love, who is on his side.
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.
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.
Since Sappho loved and sang, there has been no such national lyrist as Burns.
The volumes of our lyrist owe part of their popularity to the fact of their being an epitome of melodies, moods and memories that had belonged for centuries to the national life, the best [v.
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.
Chester Pierce Munroe of North Carolina is a delicate amatory lyrist of the Kleiner type.
Frank Booker, a gifted lyrist whose lines possess all the warmth, witchery and grace of his native Southland.
It would be difficult to find a finer lyristamong the mountains.
Danish lyrist of the 18th century, but he had few rivals in the whole of Europe.
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.
He was, without compeer, the greatest pastoral lyrist of Denmark.
Pancrates was entertained in Alexandria at the public cost for his fable of the lotos; and the lyrist Mesomedes received so liberal a pension for his hymn to Antinous that Antoninus Pius found it needful to curtail it.
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.
When now the rage of hunger was allay'd, Thus to the lyrist wise Ulysses said: "O more than man!
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