In modern times the term "bucolics" has not often been specifically given by the poets to their pastorals; the main exception being that of Ronsard, who collected his eclogues under the title of "Les Bucoliques." ❋ Various (N/A)
I wish all the subsequent memories were innocent flower-child bucolics. ❋ MACKENZIE PHILLIPS (2009)
Meantime, my hat is spoiled in coming hither, and you have the effrontery to write bucolics to me during the most frightful weather of the year. ❋ Various (N/A)
The most celebrated collection of bucolics in antiquity is that of Theocritus, of which about thirty, in the Doric dialect, and mainly written in hexameter verse, have been preserved. ❋ Various (N/A)
He seemed a little disposed to flaunt his bucolics upon the town, his hat, his necktie, his boots and gaiters, were of so countrified a fashion, and yet he looked somehow more of a gentleman than Bommaney. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
He accepted Riese's printing of _Passer_ as a proper name ( 'M. Petronius Passer' is mentioned at Varro _RR_ III 2 2), and took the passage to mean 'He wrote bucolics, or, as Ovid puts it, he went back to ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
Latin and Croatian and produced many varieties of literature: the drama, lyrics, epics, bucolics, comedies, religious, and gypsy poetry. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
When Missouri declared for silver, with a candidate who represented the silver issue wholly and whose character endeared him especially to the bucolics everywhere, the silver sentiment became a political force to reckon with the stampede that ended with the nomination of Mr. Bryan was started. ❋ Unknown (1905)
From such white heats! bucolics, where the cows105 ❋ Unknown (1895)
While feeling for Nature was all of this character, idyllic, sensitive, sympathetic, but within very narrow bounds, and the poets generally were wandering among Greek and Latin bucolics and playing with Damon, Myrtil, Chloe, and Daphnis, Salomon Gessner made a speciality of elegiac pastoral poetry. ❋ Alfred Biese (1893)
There had been a great revival of pastoral poetry in Italy and France, but, with one or two insignificant exceptions, Spenser's were the first bucolics in English. ❋ Unknown (1886)
Saa de Miranda was a philosophical poet or, to express it more correctly, a poet with ideas; he broke with the eternal idylls, eclogues, bucolics, and pastorals of his predecessors without declining to furnish excellent examples, but more often aiming elsewhere and higher. ❋ ��mile Faguet (1881)
The labour of the fields had inspired Olivier de Serres with the prose Georgics of his _Théâtre d'Agriculture_, a work directed towards utility; the romance of the fields, and the pastoral, yet courtly, loves of a French Arcady, were the inspiration of the endless prose bucolics found in the _Astrée_ of HONORÉ D'URFÉ. ❋ Edward Dowden (1878)
With Bion, bucolics first took on the air of the study. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)
I muttered, "it is your satires, not the bucolics of Virgil, that suit this epoch!" ❋ John Esten Cooke (1858)
Calphurnius and Ausonius imitated Virgil's bucolics, and fragments of many other poets are preserved, whom we can not mention here. ❋ William Smith (1853)
The Governor was once more in high glee with his new class, and was really taking it turn about with the youngsters at the bucolics. ❋ Unknown (1845)
-- "Oh, if you cannot treat on bucolics but what you must hear some Virgil or other cry 'Stop thief,' you deserve to be tossed by one of your own 'short-horns.'" ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
