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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Sicilian shepherd and son of Hermes who was famed as a musician and reputed to be the inventor of pastoral poetry.
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Examples
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The weather continued unsettled for some days, and then it cleared up gloriously, so that Austin was able to lead what he called his Daphnis life once more.
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Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed
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Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed
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Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed
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Eyes closed, Daphnis is blind as Thamyris who kissed
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Meanwhile, in the ancient Greek setting that we learn early-on exists inside the diamond, a simple goatherd named Daphnis is charged with heresy.
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This playwright seems to be sometimes alluded to as Daphnis, sometimes under his own name.
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After that, everyone was fully warmed up, and "Daphnis" was a radiant pleasure to end the evening.
Hans Graf conducts Jean-Yves Thibaudet, National Symphony in Ravel, Debussy
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The music of "Daphnis," from the very moment of the introduction with its softly unfolding chords, its far, glamorous fanfares, its human throats swollen with songs, seems to thrust open doors into the unplumbed caverns of the soul, and summon forth the stuff to shape the dream.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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Salamon Gessner, who sang of this same vale of Neto in his "Daphnis"?
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