It speaks of the great poem as Rude rymes, the which a rustick Muse did weave In savadge soyle, far from Parnasso mount.
The goddesse heard, and suddeine where she sate, Welling out streames of teares, and quite dismayd 8 With stony feare of that rude rustick mate, Transformd her to a stone from stedfast virgins state.
The gentleman and the rustick have both sensibility and tenderness of heart, perhaps, in greater or less degree; but as they are men alike, the heart is moved by the same touches.
This was not attained but by frequent consultations with his dancing-master, and constant practice before the glass, for he had some rustick habits to overcome; but, what will not time and industry perform?
I agree with him in thinking that you would not enjoy the somewhat gross seclusion of a rustick Squire, so that you will oblige him by returning to England and letting him know your feelings in the Matter.
He was jaded, and the rustick seclusion (so he characterized the Wells!
As they dismounted, revelry and the drawling chatter of rustick voices, mingled with the tuning of fiddles, came from within, while the flickering light from the open door enchanted a heap of roots to the appearance of huge gems.
It makes a Footman talk like Oroondates, and converts a brutal Rustick into a gentle Swain.
We went over the little rustick bridges which would have been spilte in my eyes if they had been rounded off on the edges, or a mite of paint on 'em.
And pretty soon we came to a beautiful piece of water crossed by a rustick bridge, and all surrounded by green trees on every side.
She answered with rustick simplicity, in the Warwickshire pronunciation, 'I don't understand you, Sir.
He was a man of good reputation in his narrow circle, and remarkable for strength and rustick intrepidity.
IN spite of rage apparent in the face; Of her who in the scuffle lost her place, The other followed up the road she took; His course the rustick also ne'er forsook.
He imagined that he had now purchased the privilege of discourse, and began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustick understandings.
Shifter now began to be tired with rustick simplicity, and on the fifth day took possession again of his chambers, and bade farewell to the regions of calm content and placid meditation.
On hearing this the rustick lad proposed, To visit her when others' eyes were closed.
THIS savage, solitary, rustick school, The father chose his infancy to rule.
It here contracts a kind of brutality and rustick fierceness, to which men of politer conversation are wholly strangers.
It here contracts a kind of Brutality and rustick Fierceness, to which Men of a politer Conversation are wholly Strangers.
I consider the Body as a System of Tubes and Glands, or to use a more Rustick Phrase, a Bundle of Pipes and Strainers, fitted to one another after so wonderful a Manner as to make a proper Engine for the Soul to work with.
Thus the shepherd in Virgil is supposed to have forgot the name of Anaximander, and in Pope the term Zodiack is too hard for a rustick apprehension.
The Memorial of Frank Jolly, Sheweth, That he hath put himself into the Infirmary, in regard he is sensible of a certain rustick Mirth which renders him unfit for polite Conversation.
Boswell says of Crabbe's poem The Village, that 'its sentiments as to the false notions of rustick happiness and rustick virtue were quite congenial with Johnson's own.
And all the Sea-born Nereids implore Quick to return thee to our Rustick shore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rustick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
