But I had other thoughts; the fauns and sirens were not for me, perplexed as I was with household cares.
The fauns were playing there, and the sirens sang under the sea.
Woodland fauns with hairy haunches Grin in wonder through the branches Woodland fauns that know no fear.
But I never quite believed, till now, that fauns existed anywhere but in poetry.
Donatello snapped his fingers above his head, as fauns and satyrs taught us first to do, and seemed to radiate jollity out of his whole nimble person.
The Poet meets Apollo on the hill, And Pan and Flora and the Paphian Queen, And infant naiads bathing in the rill, And dryad maids that dance upon the green, And fauns and Oreads in the silver sheen They wear in summer, when the air is still.
On he paced solemnly, while the whole theatre resounded to his heavy tread, and the Fauns and Dryads fled in terror.
Look, now, at these fauns and dryads among the shrubs upon the stage, pausing in startled wonder at the first blast of music which proclaims the exit of the goddess from her temple.
Fauns and Dryads peeped laughing from among their stems, and gorgeous birds, tethered by unseen threads, fluttered and sang among their branches.
One would have thought it impossible for this kind of poetry to have subsisted without fauns and satyrs, wood-nymphs and water-nymphs, with all the tribe of rural deities.
As tuneful Congreve tries his rural strains, Pan quits the woods, the list'ning fauns the plains.
Divine honours were given to Silenus in Arcadia, and from him the Fauns and Satyrs are often called Sileni.
The Fauns were descended from Faunus, son of Picus King of Italy, who was changed by Circe into a woodpecker.
After the creation of the Fauns and Sylvans by the poets, the imagination of the latter invented the Centaur, a monster, of which the superior part was that of a man, and the remainder that of the horse.
The Sylvans, were, like the Fauns and Satyrs, the guardian deities of the woods and wild places of the earth.
In Roman mythology the fauns and silvani played the same part as Pan and the satyrs in Greece, and the same confusion existed as to whether they were individual or generic.
Both fauns and silvani had an evil reputation for their supposed propensity to assault women, to carry off children, and to disturb the dreams of sleepers.
The fauns seldom appeared to mortal sight, but their presence was made known in the weird noises and the ghostly appearances of the dark forest.
Cold grow the sunburnt bodies and the white: The nymphs and fauns will lie alone to-night.
The green fields and thick woods had faded into nothingness, and their creatures, and the fair nymphs and dryads, and the wild fauns and centaurs longed and fought no more, and man had ceased to desire the impossible.
When all the world was young, and nymphs and fauns and dryads dwelt in the forests, there was no nymph more lovely and more gay than she whose name was Echo.
It was a day of merry-making for nymphs and fauns and dryads, and all those who lived in the lonely solitudes of Phrygia came to listen to the music of the god who ruled them.
So fair she was that for her dear sake fauns and satyrs forgot to gambol, and sat in the green woods in thoughtful stillness, that they might see her as she passed.
And fauns and nymphs and satyrs echoed that shout most joyously.
On Cefalo's return he is met with bitter reproaches, and the act ends with a chorus offauns and satyrs.
Nymphs and shepherds, foresters and fauns meet at the temple of Venus; the limpid fountains and shady laurels belong essentially to the conventional landscape, whether of Sicily, of Arcadia, or of the hills overlooking the valley of the Arno.
They make a show of leaving Arcadia in high dudgeon, abandoning their families of little fauns and satyrs.
Winged horses soar through the air; gigantic sphinxes lurk in the deserts; devilish fauns roam through the forests.
Drunken Bacchantes danced before them, waving the thyrsus, hand in hand with fauns and satyrs; they encircled a triumphal car, drawn by spotted lynxes.
God Pan with his blithe pipe which the Fauns love Has challenged Phoebus of the golden lyre[,] Saying his Syrinx can give sweeter notes Than the stringed instrument Apollo boasts.
The Fauns may dance To the blithe tune of ever merry Pan; But wisdom, beauty, & the power divine Of highest poesy lives within thy strain.
They brought him to the king, who honouring him For Bacchus' sake, has gladly welcomed him, And will conduct him with solemnity To the disconsolate Faunsfrom whom he's strayed.
But the Punic war of that antiquated Poet, whom Ennius so proudly ranks among the Fauns and rustic Bards, affords me as exquisite a pleasure as the finest statue that was ever formed by Myron.
The place was fit for Spenser's Pan, with all his fauns and sylvans.
In time, his expenses brought clamors about him that overpowered the lamb's bleat and the linnet's song, and his groves were haunted by beings very different to fauns and fairies.
The writer I have quoted seems to imagine that Spenser, by the sheer force of fancy, not only peopled this waste with fauns and nymphs, but clothed it with trees, and other charms of nature.
Again the Maenads became the monstrous hags, the Satyrs or Faunswere demons, and the beautiful Dionysus resolved once more into the hideous and fetid Hircus Nocturnus.
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