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First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed.

From Time Magazine Archive

He created lasting pictures of human life, some of which have the eternal outline and pose of a Theocritean idyl.

From History of American Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

But this factitious bucolicism is pervaded by a pathos, which, like volcanic heat, has fused into a new compound the dilapidated debris of the Theocritean world.

From Milton by Pattison, Mark

They are not genuinely rustic; nor do they, in Theocritean fashion, attempt to render the beauty of the country from the peasant's point of view.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

Then there is a charming Theocritean bit of country—the temperate region at the tail-end of the grove.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman