I am no longer displeased at being roused from my own thoughts; so I went, as I very much like the cither, and have always wished to hear a virtuoso perform on it.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
But nearly always there is in such cases that sacrifice of the inherent qualities of one or other of the mediums employed which a great virtuoso never makes.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
One of the favourite objects of ridicule of the past essayists was the virtuoso.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen