At the time the following idyl was written, the pernicious style of literature which it satirizes was confined to France.
There is a poetical side to the commonplace of his incomings and outgoings; study him well, and you may frame an idyl of some sort from his apparently prosaic existence.
His was the Christian's unsung Age of Gold, A truer idyl than the bards have told Of Arno's banks or Arcady of old.
The poem in its first form was entitled The Wife: anIdyl of Bearcamp Water, and appeared in The Atlantic Monthly for January, 1868.
Love for him was an idyl of dreams and delicious fantasies, a paradise where he and Una delighted in all the harmless exaggerations of poetry and romance.
The past was completely blotted out; the tender idyl of Derwentwater, of Rysdale, forgotten.
This charming idyl in Paganini's life reminds one of the retirement of the pianist Chopin to the island of Majorca in the company of Mme.
Mr. Burroughs will agree that the hummingbird is probably a primitive bird; and also that this is a true idyl, and that he could not write a true idyl if he tried.
You are born an idyl or you are not, and where and when you live has nothing to do with it.
No, a book essentially is only a personality in type, and he who would not be frustrated of his hope to write a true idyl must himself be born a true idyl.
She would nurse the shadows of her summer's idyl long after the idyl was gone, and would mistake them for reality.
He would jar the idyl into a mockery, the indefinable malignity of him, alert and silent up there at the head of the stairs, floating down like an evil wind to mingle with the reminiscent sound of rain.
That was inevitable, for he had fled from an idyl and the memory of its charm must lessen slowly.
An Idyl for Glaucus Nel suo aspetto tal dentro mifei Qual si fe' Glauco nel gustar dell' erba Che il fe' consorto in mar degli altri dei.
In fact, if he had been asked whether a poem was or was not an idyl he would doubtless have been unable to comprehend the question.
On the whole, it is impossible to admit that the idyl has a place among definite literary forms.
It was the six little epical romances, if they may be so called, which started the conception of the idyl of Theocritus.
The story of Ruth is a beautiful idyl of domestic life, opening to us in the barbarous period of the Judges.
Then comes the beautiful idyl of the three angels, who announce the future birth of the long-desired heir.
In the pictures which the Bible opens to us of the domestic life of the patriarchal ages, we have one perfectly characteristic and beautiful idyl of a wooing and wedding, according to the customs of those days.
If you will accede to my proposal, your future may be one long idyl of happiness; your every wish shall be gratified; you shall be a queen--I your slave.
I would not have you relinquish your idyl even now.
Nevertheless the dialogues in the Song of Solomon are certainly dramatic in character; and we cannot call the poem an idyl when it is rendered entirely in the form of speeches by different persons without any connecting narrative.
The question whether the work is a drama or an idyl has been discussed with much critical acumen.
Poem: A Garden Idyl With sagest craft Arachne worked Her web, and at a corner lurked, Awaiting what should plump her soon, To case it in the death-cocoon.
This uniformly charming idyl would have satisfied all my wishes, had I been able to shake off the fear that it would some day come to an end.
In fact, the next three days save for the strain of being constantly alert were a sort of idyl for Wilson and Jo.
So the two had been able to live their idyl in peace, though Flores slept always with one eye open and his knife near.
It is a piece of cruellest realism, because quite quiet and unforced, in the midst of a kind of fairy-land idyl of almost childish love, the love of the beautiful son of the lord of Beaucaire for a beautiful Saracen slave girl.
The lovely idyl won him fame and friendship, and the great novel added neither to him, though he had put the experience and the observation of his ripened life into it.
He began to feel that none was likely to, and that the summer's idyl was destined to be but a memory like to the sound of church bells in his boyhood days.
This idyl is very famous, and it has been translated hundreds of times into various languages.
One of these is well worthy of rank with the idyl of Theocritus above mentioned.
I think that the tenth idyl of Theocritus is perhaps the prettiest example of the whole series, thirty in number, which have been preserved for us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idyl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
