Bucolics
Americannoun
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Bucolics are very sweet, but their writers do not believe in them.
From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Timothy Titcomb
Theocritus was no French sentimentalist; he would have protested against the tame elegancies of the Roman Bucolics; and the sospiri ardenti and miserelli aman of Guarini would have driven him mad.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various
They also keep capons, fruit and other things, and for all these matters there is a book which they call the Bucolics.
From Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More
Vergil, as the author of the Bucolics and the Aeneid, is already known to the student.
From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Curtis C. Bushnell
Between 41 B.C. and 37 B.C., he composed, as already stated, his "Eclogues" or "Bucolics."
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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