Bucolics
Americannoun
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Petrarch, in imitation of Virgil, had written Latin Bucolics, as he had written a Latin Epic, his Africa.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
The first page of the text is surrounded by an old illumination: and the title to the Bucolics is inserted, by the hand, in gold capital letters.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
A more bucolic personage Bucolics never sang; And when he took that post and wage, All round his praises rang.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
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
It is quite in the way of one of Virgil's Amœbœan Bucolics.
From Buzz a Buzz or The Bees by Wilhelm Busch
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