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Meanings of georgic in inglês

Referring to agriculture.

Usage of georgic in inglês
1
This 18th-century georgic celebrates the diversions of country folk, including a jolly hare hunt across the "furzy" fields of Berkshire.
The Guardian
2
There is little fact and much fable in his fourth Georgic.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
3
The story is told with overpowering beauty in Vergil's fourth Georgic.
Alcestis
4
If he had, we should have had a fifth Georgic.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
5
His tenth book, a fifth Georgic on gardening, p. 147.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
6
The whole form had to stay back on the last day and write out a Georgic.
The Loom of Youth
7
They are no newer than Virgil, and what is more odd, are in the second Georgic.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
8
You will write me out a Georgic.
The Days Before Yesterday
9
Williams, you will bring me the fourth Georgic, written out by Saturday morning, for your repeated disobedience.
Eric; Or, Little by Little
10
See the second Georgic of Virgil.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14,...
11
He wrote very little altogether, but produced a piece called "Blenheim," and a sort of Georgic entitled "Cyder."
History of English Humour, Vol. 2
12
They each got a Georgic....
The Loom of Youth
13
"Oh, it is a pure Georgic-they'lldance."
In and out of Three Normandy Inns
14
You will see by it how much his vile hint from the Georgic; and his rude one of my whining vocatives, have set me up.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
15
"Ay; by the bye, Gordon set him a Georgic only on Thursday, and he has been swearing at him ever since."
Eric; Or, Little by Little
16
"The other day Mr Gordon gave him a Georgic as an imposition, and I heard Williams say that he would like to pay him out."
Eric; Or, Little by Little
Frequent collocations
Georgic through the time