Mr. Prohack could of course have burst in upon the pair and smashed an idyllto fragments.
But instead of doing so he turned away from the idyll and descended the stairs as stealthily as he could.
The idyll of Miette and Silvere is a very touching one, and quite in accord with the conditions of life prevailing in Provence at the period M.
They loved one another, and their idyllended in death.
In the Idyll Guinevere speaks as if their early loves had been as conspicuous as, according to George Buchanan, were those of Queen Mary and Bothwell.
His forebodings in the Idyll contain a magnificent image:- "There lay she all her length and kiss'd his feet, As if in deepest reverence and in love.
Theocritus cannot be surpassed; but the idyll matches to the seventh of his, where it is most closely followed, and possesses such a picture of a girl as the Sicilian never tried to paint.
It is to be noted, in that charming idyll of the Eden garden, that it is only AFTER eating of the forbidden fruit that Adam and Eve perceive the Lord God walking in the garden, and converse with him (Genesis iii.
Simaetha, it will be remembered, in the second Idyll of Theocritus, curses her faithless lover Delphis, and as she melts his waxen image she prays that HE TOO MAY MELT.
The town park is an idyll in the otherwise prosaic municipal history of the Borough of Bursley, which previously had never got nearer to romance than a Turkish bath.
A simple frock went halfway down his leg: IDYLL XXV.
What, for instance, may be the true meaning of [Greek: bolbhost tist kochlhiast] in the fourteenth Idyll I have no idea.
What the Gorgo of Theocritus might have said to her friend Praxinoe on the occasion would be the subject for an idyll à la Browning!
As the Good Shepherd, and as Orpheus, we find him painted in the Catacombs; and those who thought of him as God, loved to dwell upon his risen greatness more than on the idyll of his birth.
The commonplace circumstances of ordinary life have been employed to portray in the one case a lyric of mysterious splendour; in the other, an idyll of infinite sweetness.
To comprehend Tintoretto's touch upon the pastoral idyll we must turn our steps to San Giorgio again, and pace those meadows by the running river in company with his Manna-Gatherers.
Her verses on "Three Little Nest-Birds" and her tale of the Thrush in "An Idyll of the Wood" bear witness to the same feeling.
I have asked him to give me a coloured thing and one or two rough sketches, Either An Old Coaching Day's Idyll or--A Trooper's Tragedy.
I wonder if I send it by next mail, whether you would have room for a very short Christmas sort of prose Idyll suggested to me by a scene I saw when we were hunting for a sketch the other day.
For Lady Haredale, with a sudden change of tone, began to question her, and listened to the little idyll with as fresh and eager an interest as if she had been Amethyst's sister or school friend.
In the meantime, Lady Haredale had been as sympathetic as a girl, promoting the love-idyll in every possible way, and devising the loveliest and most original costumes for her daughter.
Gone, vanished like the snows of long ago, was her painted idyll of domestic bliss.
They were supposed to deduce an idyll of conjugal bliss where proximity was perfect happiness.
From theidyll "Wild Thorn and Lily" O Maytime woods!
The Deserted Village was in point of fact an imaginative idyll,--the supreme idyll of English poetry; but Goldsmith insisted that it was a realistic record of actual conditions.
I have just re-read the 15th Idyll of Theocritus, and have written three more sonnets.
With unanimous assent, indeed, the idyll is performed as if according to a written program.
An idyll by Tennyson, called The Passing of Arthur, in the Idylls of the King.
Each idyll taken as a separate picture represents the war between sense and soul.
Gessner has imitated the Greek romance in his idyll called Daphnis.
It is your doing that I want this week in Arcadia to be an idyll we shall neither of us forget--an idyll of sunlight, moonshine, and blessed freedom from les convenances.
To be rich enough to be able to buy the whole of Capri, and yet be unable to enjoy the peaceful idyll of the enchanting island for one short hour!
Night-capped and blue-stockinged Prose startles the Idyll which lies there dreaming with half-closed eyes, grinning fauns push aside the vines which hide from view the cool grotto where the nymph of the legend bathes her graceful limbs.
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