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Definition of Satyrs

1. satyr [n] - See also: satyr

Lexicographical Neighbors of Satyrs

Literary usage of Satyrs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"B. satyrs. 2 Hesiod called them. Limbs powerfully built, but not ennobled by ... Sometimes, however, the satyrs rise into very noble slender shapes, ..."

2. Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative by Leigh Hunt (1883)
"A CATCH OF satyrs. ... bids his satyrs awaken a couple of Sylvans, who have fallen asleep while they should haue kept watch. Buz, quoth the hlue fly, Hum, ..."

3. Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative by Leigh Hunt (1891)
"It is impossible that anything could better express than this, either the wild and practical joking of the satyrs, or the action of the thing described, ..."

4. Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative by Leigh Hunt (1845)
"—Afterwards, close creeping as he might, He in a bush did hide his fearful head: The jolly satyrs, full of fresh delight, Came dancing forth, and with them ..."

5. Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor Porson and Others by Edmund Henry Barker (1852)
"satyrs AND SATIRES. The Bursar of Jesus College Cambridge, (Sheepshanks by name) having ordered one of the students to translate a Satire of Horace by way ..."

6. Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative by Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt (1845)
"—Afterwards, close creeping as he might, He in a bush did hide his fearful head: The jolly satyrs, full of fresh delight, Came dancing forth, and with them ..."

7. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"... and those that durst not so much as mutter against them in their lives, will prosecute their name with satyrs, Libels, and bitter imprecations, ..."

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