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Big Idea Productions, who make Christian videos starring vegetables, and our very own Lyrick Studios, which makes mind-numbing videos starring a purple dinosaur, got mad at each other when Big Idea hooked up with Warner Music Group.
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Poet excellent in all its Species thereof; some addicting themselves most to the _Epick_, some to the _Dramatick_, some to the _Lyrick_, other to the _Elegiack_, the _Epænitick_, the _Bucolick_, or the
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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_Horace_ and _Catullus_ among the Latines are the best Lyrick Poets: so in this faculty the best among our Poets are _Spencer_ (who excelleth in all kinds) _Daniel_, _Drayton_, _Shakespeare_, _Bretton_.
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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With the same Confidence of Immortality, the Renowned Poet _Horace_ thus concludes the Third Book of his _Lyrick_ Poesie.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Lyrick and Pastorall_ (_circ. _ 1605) of Michael Drayton.
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He spoke contemptuously of our lively and elegant, though too licentious, Lyrick bard, Hanbury Williams, and said, 'he had no fame, but from boys who drank with him [726].'
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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And indeed, considering that their measure is different from that of an Heroick Verse, which consists but of 10 Syllables, they ought not to be too frequently us'd in Heroick Poems; but they are very graceful in the Lyrick, to which, as well as to the Burlesque, those Rhymes more properly belong.
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They are as I said before, us'd only in Operas, and Masks, and in Lyrick and Pindarick Odes.
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_Alcæus_, the famous _Lyrick_ Poet, who had for some time been passionately in Love with _Sappho_, arrived at the Promontory of
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Hence Wit has no place in History, Philology, Philosophy, or in the greater Lyrick or Epick Poems; the two last of which containing either the Praises of Deities or Demi-Gods, or treating of lofty and illustrious Subjects; such as the Foundation, Rise, and Revolution of
Essay upon Wit Sir Richard Blackmore 1695
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