Was it for this reason that the Roman legionaries on the Great Wall so often reared altars in that lonely land of moor and mountain where so many of them fought and died-- "To Pan, and to the Sylvan deities"?
Some of the debaters, indeed, looked over their shoulders, but the leader, who sat above them framed in the sylvan setting of the stage, never so much as deigned to glance up from his newspaper.
And yet a fortnight ago thissylvan retreat was the scene of murder and sudden death.
One represented a stupid German peasant woman holding a baby, and standing in front of a thatched cottage; its companion was a sylvan scene in which certain wooden rustics were supposed to be enjoying themselves.
And then there were the draughty opera-houses with the sylvan scenery pushed back and plush chairs and sofas pushed forward; with an ominous table, a pitcher of water on it and a glass, near the footlights.
The master's room, which had held for generations nothing but memories of pastoral business and sylvan pleasures, had suddenly become a place of sorrow.
The simple, sylvan character of its daily life charmed his poetic instincts.
At his side walked his favorite daughter Charlotte,--his dear companion, the confidant and sharer of all his sylvan pleasures.
The music of these savage groves In simple accents swells, And freely here, their sylvan loves The feather'd nation tells; The panting deer through mingled shades Of oaks forever green The vegetable world invades, That skirts the watery scene.
Their genius wept, his sons to see By foreign arms untimely fall, And some to distant climates flee, Where later ruin met them all: He saw his sylvan offspring bleed, That envious natures might succeed.
How art thou fallen, my country's pride, "The rural, sylvan reign!
There are woods and waters, and the occasional illusion of an illimitable distance of sylvan joyance.
Why is't thus, thissylvan Petrarch Pours all night his serenade?
My helpmate in the woods to be, Our shed at night to rear; Or run, my own adopted bride, A sylvan huntress at my side, 95 And drive the flying deer!
Such as pursue their feared vagaries [54] In sylvan bower, or haunted hall?
And near the fountain, flowers of stature tall 85 With trailing plants and trees were intertwined,-- Which soon composed a little sylvan hall, A leafy shelter from the sun and wind.
Seated at the entrance of their sylvan hut, in front of which their evening fire burned brightly, they looked out upon the storm in silence and in awe.
See that red squirrel, how lightly he runs along that fallen trunk--how furtively he glances with his sharp bright eye at the intruders on his sylvan haunts!
Grapes and butternuts which Hector cracked with stones by way of nut-crackers, finished their sylvan meal.
Uncle Billy, with inward scorn, as he surveyed the sylvan group, the glancing firelight, and the tethered animals in the foreground.
It was perhaps the influence of the season, or the memory of this sylvan enjoyment, which caused Aristides, one midsummer day, to have a singular vision.
The last rays of the setting sun were reflected from one of those sylvan lakes peculiar to the Sierras of California.
The sun was just sinking below the horizon, and the scene was one of gorgeous and sylvan beauty.
I visions of the sylvan valley, and its glittering waters, with dreams of social intercourse.
In that delightful land which is washed by the Delaware's waters, Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle, Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded.
On the day of the great festival, Ernest, with all the other people of the valley, left their work, and proceeded to the spot where the sylvan banquet was prepared.
This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his end the same, The same pretext of sylvan game.
High place to thee in royal court, High place in battled line, Good hawk and hound for sylvan sport!
Thy votress from my tender years I am, And love, like thee, the woods and sylvan game.
Surely one who has tasted of the pleasures of the camp, must weary at times of this sylvan life!
The sylvanscene Migrates uplifted; and with all its soil Alighting in far distant fields, finds out A new possessor, and survives the change.
Let us, in concert, to the season sing, Civic and sylvan heralds of the spring!
Indian girl with an abashed revealment of the wild sylvan poetry with which her thoughts were rife.
Simply and naturally she spoke of her own love of the wild things that filled the sylvan world with life and color.
The sylvanmass of the night was a thing of infinite peace and mystery, of silence and solemnity.
They watched the great moon sail behind a cloud and emerge, flooding the sylvan world with light.
Just as I disembarked there drove up a large red bus labeled: Sylvan Dale Summer Hotel, European and American Plans.
It would take a volume to describe the wood warblers, sylvan nymphs of such bizarre color patterns and dainty forms that one is fain to imagine himself in the heart of some wondrous forest of a far-away land.
If one would have the famous song of the mocking bird in this sylvan carnival he has only to loiter in the nearest grove to hear the wonderful performance of the catbird.
What were all the sounds contrived by tuneful men, To the warbling wild notes of the sylvan glen?
Still farthersylvan promenades are afforded by the Pump Room Gardens.
Goat Island was still the sylvan solitude of twelve years ago, haunted by even fewer nymphs and dryads than of old.
Lucille had no sooner got among the mossy roots of the trees, than her sylvan task commenced, and the fragrant crimson berries began to fill her basket.
