A short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life.
1 The spell by knotting the girdle is noticed by Virgil, 8th eclogue :
2 It was a delicious eclogue - pure ,sincere ,andtender; but it is past-Adieu
3 It is in the eclogue for February, where he tells us of the
4 This is the Gallus in honour of whom Virgil composed his tenth eclogue .
5 The eighth eclogue of Virgil, entitled Pharmaceutria, is particularly to our purpose in this point.
6 Though given a different setting it is clearly modelled on the fourth eclogue of Vergil.
7 In the eclogue this danger is earnestly discussed by the two Yorkshire farmers, Roger and Willie.
8 In short, the eclogue took place.
9 Yet it is not sufficient, that the sentences only be brief, the whole eclogue should be so too.
10 In Milton's "Lycidas" there are reminiscences of this eclogue as well as of that for May.
11 From Coleridge's war eclogue , "Fire, Famine and Slaughter," where the letters form the name of Pitt.
12 One would think you'd never read an eclogue of Virgil-you'reduller than a doctor of divinity's after-dinner speech!
13 The twelfth eclogue opens thus:
14 With respect to the fourth eclogue , addressed to Pollio, it is avowedly of a nature superior to that of pastoral subjects:
15 This will not seem surprising, when we reflect, that the eclogue was taken from a Sibylline prophecy on the same subject.
16 She flies towards the brake, but hopes first to be perceived, said the poet of the delightful eclogue , two thousand years ago.
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