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The Lyre was a small press magazine edited by myself and Nicholas Mahoney.
They don’t work for me – books and authors who don’t appeal « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010
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Works on paper like "Lyre" and "Harlot" are equally witty and opulent.
ArtScene: Current Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2010
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Works on paper like "Lyre" and "Harlot" are equally witty and opulent.
ArtScene: Current Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2010
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Susemihl-Hicks (1894), pp. 604 (= 1341a 40) and 632; Daremberg and Saglio, _Dict. d'ant.gr. et rom. _, article "Lyre," p. 1450, for a few more references to the classics.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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For the first time, too, they saw here the "Lyre" bird, the tail of which resembles in form the graceful instrument of Orpheus.
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The Summer Triangle's brightest star, Vega, lies in Lyra the Lyre, and shines at mag 0.0 from a distance of 25 light years ly.
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Her publisher rejected two subsequent and very large manuscripts of religious poetry: Jesu Kristi lyra The Lyre of Jesus Christ and Ave Maria.
Archive 2010-06-01 David McDuff 2010
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Her publisher rejected two subsequent and very large manuscripts of religious poetry: Jesu Kristi lyra The Lyre of Jesus Christ and Ave Maria.
Mirjam Tuominen - 10 David McDuff 2010
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The leader of the small constellation of Lyra the Lyre, it lies 25 light years away and, at magnitude 0.0, is the second brightest star in the sky's N hemisphere, after Arcturus.
Starwatch 2010
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- "The Lyre Of Orpheus," by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, from The Lyre Of Orpheus, which is one half of a double album full of the sort of uplifting tunes Nick Cave is known for.
They don't swerve, you know thryn 2007
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