Bucolics
Americannoun
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The Bucolics are pastoral idyls; the characters are Italian in all their sentiments and feelings, acting, however, the unreal and assumed part of Greek shepherds.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
There is no evidence in the Bucolics that Virgil ever had any practical knowledge of agriculture before he undertook to write the Georgics.
From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Fairfax Harrison
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
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
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
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