idyllist

This is that of Theocritus, a Sicilian idyllist, who wrote at

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

He was the humorous and satirical idyllist _par excellence_, and laid the scenes of his romances in idyllic surroundings, using the trifling events of daily life to wonderful purpose.

The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893

While most of those who have accepted the theory of imitation-they cannot have reread the Idylls and the Song as wholes to persist in such a theory-have contended that Theocritus borrowed from Canticles, Graetz is convinced that the Hebrew poet must have known and imitated the Greek idyllist.

The Book of Delight and Other Papers Israel Abrahams 1891

Brizeux, the idyllist, in his _Marie_, of Breton wilds and provincial works and ways; Gérard de Nerval, Hégésippe Moreau, Madame

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

From the mean squalor of the sordid life that limits him, the dreamer or the idyllist may soar on poesy's viewless wings, may traverse with fawn-skin and spear the moonlit heights of Cithaeron though Faun and Bassarid dance there no more.

Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music.

Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music.

Lucretia — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"The way in which Longus excites the sensual desires of the lovers by means of licentious experiments going always only to the verge of gratification, betrays an abominably hypocritical _raffinement_ [331] which reveals in the most disagreeable manner that the naïveté of this idyllist is a premeditated artifice and he himself nothing but a sophist.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890