| 单词 | aeolian lyre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAeolian lyre Aeolian lyre n. = Aeolian harp n.In quot. 1757 the reference is to a lyre of Aeolia and not to this instrument, though it had recently become known: see Lit. Mag. (1757) Sept.–Oct. 423/2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > harp or lyre > [noun] > lyre > Aeolian Aeolus's harpa1748 Aeolian harp1750 Aeolian lyre1754 anemochord1801 wind-harp1813 1754 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 525/1 Till happy! now the Eolian lyre is known, And all the pow'rs of musick are my own. 1757 T. Gray Ode I i. i, in Odes 5 Awake, Æolian lyre, awake.] a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Ess. & Lett. (1840) I. 26 Man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven, like the alternations of an ever-changing wind over an Æolian lyre, which move it by their motion to ever-changing melody. 1853 Jrnl. Progress 11 June 109/2 Like the chords of an æolian lyre to the Spirit of the wind. 1959 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 103 624/2 The ‘South-West Wind in the Woodland’..makes nature an Aeolian lyre of tree branches played on by the wind. 1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae xiv. 378 One of the great Romantic metaphors, the Aeolian lyre, has a latent sexual ambiguity unnoted by major criticism. < as lemmas |
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