lyrick

Johnson described as ‘our lively and elegant though too licentious lyrick bard.’

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Anacreon, and others of the Greek lyrick poets, with great care; so that my friend and he had much matter for conversation, without touching on the fatal topicks of difference.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

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’.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

[Perhaps] certainly he had not the fire requisite for the higher species of lyrick poetry. '

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

In the Gentleman's Magazine for December this year, he inserted an 'Ode on Winter,' which is, I think, an admirable specimen of his genius for lyrick poetry [4].

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Dr Johnson described as 'our lively and elegant though too licentious lyrick bard. '

Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Greek lyrick poets, with great care; so that my friend and he had much matter for conversation, without touching on the fatal topicks of difference.

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767

He spoke contemptuously of our lively and elegant, though too licentious, lyrick bard, Hanbury

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767

'Ode on Winter,' which is, I think, an admirable specimen of his genius for lyrick poetry [528].

Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767

The hexameter of the ancients may be considered as consisting of fifteen syllables, so melodiously disposed, that, as every one knows who has examined the poetical authors, very pleasing and sonorous lyrick measures are formed from the fragments of the heroick.

The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV 1750