The sylphs are created by combining the agility of Ariel with the lively impertinence of the inhabitants of Lilliput.
Indeed, we are tempted at times to class him with his own sylphs in this respect, as well as in the elegance and swiftness of his genius.
A troop of chariots of light and airy workmanship followed, and a crowd of Gnomes and Sylphs singing and playing on various instruments, and dancing with gestures of grace and delicacy.
To these he gives the names of the Gnomes, the Nymphs or Undines, the Sylphs or Sylvestres, the Salamanders, the Pigmies and the Sirens.
The Nymphs live in the element of water, the Sylphs in that of the air, the Pigmies in the earth, and the Salamanders in the fire.
The nimble sylphsbring from the "Cave of Spleen" a stock of shrieks, and tears, and megrims.
The Sylphs and Gnomes act at the toilet and the tea- table what more terrific and more powerful phantoms perform on the stormy ocean or the field of battle: they give their proper help and do their proper mischief.
The Sylphs cannot be said to help or oppose; and it must be allowed to imply some want of art that their power has not been sufficiently intermingled with the action.
Through his throng of operatic nixies andsylphs of the ballet the cold Muse sometimes passes, strange, but not unfriendly.
To a person who merely learned the sounds in these lines by rote, without knowing the sense of the words, all the advantage of the appropriated names and offices of the sylphs would be lost.
This is one of the pleasures of Ariel, and of the Sylphs in the Rape of the Lock.
No one, who has any sense of propriety, can call these sylphs by wrong names, or put them out of their places.
Let us, however, still remember, that this poem is founded on local manners, and the employment of the sylphs is in artificial life.
The sylphs and the gnomes," says Tyers, "were the deities of the day.
The sylphs cannot be said to help or to oppose, and it must be allowed to imply some want of art, that their power has not been sufficiently intermingled with the action.
Belinda leads a life of vanity, and the sylphs are the ministers of vanity.
The names were a considerable part of the novelty; for, in the fundamental conception, the sylphs in the Rape of the Lock were the time-honoured fairies of English literature.
The sylphs and gnomes act at the toilet and the tea-table, what more terrific and more powerful phantoms perform on the stormy ocean or the field of battle; they give their proper help and do their proper mischief.
To the distempered mind of Dennis the sylphs appeared an absurd excrescence.
Oft, when the world imagine women stray, The sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way, Through all the giddy circle they pursue, And old impertinence expel by new.
The sylphs behold it kindling as it flies, And pleased pursue its progress through the skies.
And although I do not yet resolve upon the accommodation which you propose to me with the Salamanders; I cannot refrain from having the curiosity to learn how you have discovered that these Nymphs and these Sylphs die.
Her bosom heaved with many a sigh, The tear was in her drooping eye; But she led him to the palace gate, And called the sylphs who hovered there, And bade them fly and bring him straight Of clouds condensed a sable car.
Here there were sylphs of the air and gnomes of the earth, little spirits who would be in right proportion to the substance of his poem, which was refashioned into five cantos, and republished as we have it now in February 1714.
The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam, The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
He entertained many of the opinions of the Rosicrucians; boasted of his intercourse with sylphs and salamanders; and of his power of drawing diamonds from the earth, and pearls from the sea, by the force of his incantations.
His charming countess, in the meantime, brought grist to the mill by telling fortunes and casting nativities, or granting attendant sylphs to any ladies who would pay sufficiently for their services.
The sylphs and elementary spirits obey me, and fly to the uttermost ends of the world to serve me, and those whom I delight to honour.
How Simplicissimus journeyed with the sylphs to the centre of the earth Chap.
Contents: The sylphsof the seasons, a poet's dream, p.
I'll wait--the sylphs of the evening will soon come and sprinkle the thirsty flowers with their vapors of dew.
Lovers sit on the grassy banks, children roll among the leaves, sylphs dance in every open, and out from between the branches lightly steps Orpheus, harp in hand, to greet the morn.
In the next number, a short recitative, the alto has a more grateful task; this time it is the graceful sylphs of heaven who appear, weaving their dance about the Fay, and leading him on to the palace of the Sylphide Queen.
Illustration: Lucile Grahn and Cerito’s Sultane Sylphs a la Fille de l’Orage, (No.
The feet and palms are always compared with the leaves of trees, so these meeting on every leaf is the lightsome leaping and skipping of the airy sylphs over them, increased the number of leaves to more than ever so many).
Nymphs (undines, or naiads) have their residences and palaces in the element of water; sylphs and salamanders have no fixed dwellings.
Under the deceptive beauty of some of their apparitions, they might find some day the sylphs and fair undines of the Rosicrucians playing in the currents of psychic and odic force.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sylphs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
