georgic

• In this poem, completed and published in 1713, he proceeded, as Virgil had done, from the pastoral vein to the georgic and celebrated the rule of Queen Anne as the Latin poet had celebrated the rule of Augustus. —  Encyclopædia Britannica Online Quote of the Day
• I am hurrying on to Rome, and I have no time to write a georgic. —  The Path to Rome
• Such unpoetic toils never could have inspired the georgic muse of Vergil or Thomson. —  The Awakening of China
• But either Mistress Jean's influx of caution came too late, and someone had overheard her suggestion, or the idea was already abroad in the mind bucolic and georgic, for that very night it began to be reported upon the nearer farms, that the Mains of Glashruach was haunted by a brownie who did all the work for both men and maids -- a circumstance productive of different opinions with regard to the desirableness of a situation there, some asserting they would not fee to it for any amount of wages, and others averring they could desire nothing better than a place where the work was all done for them. —  Sir Gibbie
• Being -- a mere didactic phrase, the deity of a poet's georgic -- should adequately replace that eternal marvel of construction, by means of which the great churchmen had wrought dogma and liturgy and priest and holy office into every hour and every mood of men's lives. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre

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