Astrea

"Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" she esteemed as one of the finest things of our time; and of "Astrea" she said, -- "Nobody in England can write the glorious resonant metre of Dryden like that strain, nowadays."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

Monsieur de Caseins [81] took them all to Cadiz in 1770, on the "Santa Rosa," except five or six who remained, and whom Don Joseph de Cordova took with him the following year on the "Astrea," and with whom I journeyed from the isle of France to Cadiz.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

Elizabeth Tudor knew exactly what she was doing when she employed all the mythic symbolism operative in her society to build the image of the Virgin Queen Astrea.

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Fantasy and Comedy of Manners 2010

In fifth century France, Romeo and Juliet-like lovers Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour) and Celadon (Andy Gillet) are divided by feuding families…only in this case, the setting includes an enchanted forest with nymps, druids, and other creatures and elements of magic.

Buzzine » Uncle D’s DVD Shelf 2009

The Astrea foundation does a similar thing for lesbians -- awarding an annual 10,000 grant to a lesbian writing about lesbian issues.

The CSK Is Dead (Long Live the CSK) Editorial Anonymous 2009

Did you see "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" yet?

A Tale of Springtime Ed Howard 2008

Eric Rohmer, who turned eighty-eight this year, has indicated that The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (which was released in France in 2007 and recently opened commercially in New York) is likely to be his last film.

Our Nights Chez Rohmer O'Brien, Geoffrey 2008

He that shall examine this [4620] iron age wherein we live, where love is cold, et jam terras Astrea reliquit, justice fled with her assistants, virtue expelled,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

One of the most social and convivial of women, a thorough Tory, well known to Dryden, Creech, Otway and all the leading men of her day, warm helper and ally of every struggling writer, Astrea began to be completely overpowered by the continual strain, the unremittent tax upon both health and time.

A Memoir of Mrs. Behn 2002

Says Eugenius: ‘You may remember Mr. Bays, how the famed Astrea, once in her Life – time unluckily lighted upon such a Sacred Subject, and in a strange fit of Piety, must needs attempt a Paraphrase on the Lord’s Prayer.

A Memoir of Mrs. Behn 2002