Player of an ancient stringed instrument

Usage examples of lyrist.

He gave each string a final, testing twang, looking into the wings for a signal from Terpnus, his music tutor and the leading lyrist in Rome.

Marvell, beyond him in imaginative power, though twisting it too often into contortion and excess, appears to have been little known as a lyrist then:-- as, indeed, his great merits have never reached anything like due popular recognition.

Ierne sent The sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong, And Love taught Grief to fall like music from his tongue.

When the future lyrist was fifteen months old his father, Nicholas Herrick, made his will, and immediately fell out of an upper window.

Raftery and of Donal MacConsidine to say nothing of a more modern lyrist at present very much in the public eye.

On the way back to their hotel, March made some reflections upon the open neglect, throughout Germany, of the greatest German lyrist, by which the poet might have profited if he had been present.

The work of the new lyrist must be to see in things and emotions the quality of beauty, and to discern and express the magic quickening thrill that creeps like a flame through the material form, and passes out beyond the invisible horizon, leaping from star to star, and from the furthest star into the depths of the ancient environing night.

The Elizabethan lyrist is safe among lilies and cherries, roses, pearls, and snow.

Pindar himself, of whom our modern Lyrist is an imitator, appears entirely guided by it.

Since Sappho loved and sang, there has been no such national lyrist as Burns.

An orchestra of flutists and lyrists, all dressed as satyrs, struck up a sensuous tune.

Highly as he is to be rated among our lyrists, no one who reads through his fourteen hundred pieces can reasonably doubt that whatever may have been the influences, --wholly unknown to us,--which determined the contents of his volume, severe taste was not one of them.

No one else among lyrists within the period defined, has such unfailing freshness: so much variety within the sphere prescribed to himself: such closeness to nature, whether in description or in feeling: such easy fitness in language: melody so unforced and delightful.

On this question, and on the real worth of the seventeenth century lyrists, a great deal has to be said hereafter.

One of the most important passages in Greek literature, in whatever aspect viewed, is composed of the writings of the great Theban lyrist.