By the slave women that are among the gifts sent to Cleon, seems to be indicated the degradation of the spiritual by its subjection to earthly ideals, as were the ideals of Greek art. This is more particularly indicated by the one white she-slave, the lyric woman, whom further on in his letter, Cleon promises to the King he will make narrate (in lyric song we must suppose) his fortunes, speak his great words, and describe his royal face.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Of the four interlusive lyrics the freer music is in the unique chant,
"Over the sea our galleys went": a song full of melody and blithe lilt. It is marvellously pictorial, and yet has a freedom that places it among
the most delightful of spontaneous lyrics: --英文原著 · 《Life of Robert Browning》
-- * These may be found either in Gosse's `English Lyrics' (D. Appleton & Co., New York) or in Palgrave's `Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics' (Macmillan & Co., New York).英文原著 · 《Select Poems of Sidney Lanier》
Other {90} sorts of poetry, almost, have we none, but that lyrical kind of songs and sonnets, which, if the Lord gave us so good minds, how well it might be employed, and with how heavenly fruits, both private and public, in singing the praises of the immortal beauty, the immortal goodness of that God, who giveth us hands to write, and wits to conceive; of which we might well want words, but never matter; of which we could turn our eyes to nothing, but we should ever have new budding occasions.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
or something of that kind. I faintly feel that some longer lyric was scrawled on the walls of what looked like a bedroom, something beginning:英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
My friend was (and is) a Radical, but he was (and is) an Englishman, and it never occurred to him that there could be any harm in singing archaic lyrics out of remote centuries; that one had to be a Catholic to enjoy the "Dies Irae," or a Protestant to remember "Lillibullero." Yet he was stopped and gravely warned that things so politically provocative might get him at least into temporary trouble.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
It's so bad-ass when I do karaoke I change the lyrics from purple rain to purple range.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
His spare lyricism and devotion to character will undoubtedly translate into a penetrating dramatic work for this, the golden age of television writing.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》