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His contemplation, intent upon objects of peaceful beauty, and undisturbed by rude anxieties and vehement passions, suggested only kindred reproductions to the creative faculty by which it was vivified; so that the whole man was not only a poet, but, as it were, a poem, a living idyl, calling into pastoral music every reed that sighed and trembled along the stream of life.
A book that appeals to Americans as a vivid picture of Revolutionary scenes. The story is a strong one, a thrilling one. It causes the true American to flush with excitement, to devour chapter after chapter, until the eyes smart, and it fairly smokes with patriotism. The love story is a singularly charming idyl.
And what part in this financial idyl am I expected to play!" "You are to arrange it all. I am to furnish the money, and remain strictly incognito. That is the first and essential condition I impose." "What! Mr. Prime is not to know the name of his benefactress?" "On no account whatever!" "He will be sure to search the earth until he finds her."
All about, the feeling of absolute peace and quiet and security and untroubled happiness and content seemed descending from the stars like a benediction. The beauty of his poem, its idyl, came to him like a caress; that alone had been lacking. It was that, perhaps, which had left it hitherto incomplete. At last he was to grasp his song in all its entity. But suddenly there was an interruption.
For now Spencer knew that he wanted to see her frank eyes smiling into his as they were smiling into Bower's, and, no matter what turn events took, a sinister element had been thrust into a harmless idyl by this man's arrival. Later, the American saw the two sitting in the hall. They were chatting with the freedom of old friends.
"I thought you were not going to take any interest in this 'Seaside Idyl, at all," suggested Helen, when Ruth was talking about the failure of the scene after supper that night. "I can't help it. My reputation as a scenario writer is at stake, just as much as is Mr. Hooley's reputation as director," Ruth said, smiling. "I really didn't mean to have a thing to do with the old picture.
Rousseau, whether considered as a poet or a philosopher, always obeys the same tendency; to seek nature or to avenge it by art. According to the state of his heart, whether he prefers to seek nature or to avenge it, we see him at one time roused by elegiac feelings, at others showing the tone of the satire of Juneval; and again, as in his Julia, delighting in the sphere of the idyl.
He might have been examining some plan for the junction of two railroads. "In truth," said Don Juan, "in that remote Orbajosa, where, by the way, you have some land that you might take a look at now, life passes with the tranquillity and the sweetness of an idyl. What patriarchal customs! What noble simplicity! What rural and Virgilian peace!
The less important kinds of literature, such as the Apologue or Moral Fable, which is not at this day much in fashion; the Eclogue or Idyl, whose culture particularly belongs to agrestical and picturesque regions; Political Satire, which is never more refined than under the influence of arbitrary power; these kinds, to which I might add the Madrigal and Epigram, without being altogether abandoned, are not generally enough cultivated here to obtain special mention.
I caught the expression of Estenega's face, and determined to remain if he murdered me. Peals of laughter, joyous shrieks, screams of mock terror, floated in to us. I broke a silence which was growing awkward: "How happy they are! Creatures of air and sunshine! Life in this Arcadia is an idyl." "They are not happy," said Estenega, contemptuously; "they are gay.
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