Rustick

Can I believe that the Man who fears neither poverty or dangers, who sees not charms sufficient either in Riches, power or places to tempt him in the least to swerve from the purest Sentiments of Honour and Delicacy; will retire, unnoticed, Fameless to a Rustick cottage there by dint of Labour to earn his Bread.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 April 1782 1973

He seemed exceeding open hearted, by a familiar Rustick affected

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

Dialect Rustick and Uncommon of the most sweet and delightful Sound imaginable.

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

In short, you might as well have kept a hog in training for Newmarket races, or an ox for his majesty to ride upon at a grand review, as have attempted to initiate master _Dicky Rustick_ in the elements of politeness and good breeding.

Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition. Anonymous

Noe Se, nor shee is not taken with yoe peece of deformity of ffat whose face appeares as your worst Rustick, Have you ever spoke to hir in the way of marriage?

Three Hundred Years Hence 1836

Now the Management of Country Farms will require Somebody that's hardy, and Rustick; that will neither look upon the Labour to be heavy, nor the Work mean, nor the Solitude Melancholly.

Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723

You see alternately small Pyramids, and Apple-Trees; and this Rustick Beauty of a Spot, which you would say was convey'd all at once into a Place so elegantly set out, is adorn'd towards the middle with Plane-Trees, which are kept very low, on each side: Then you enter into a Tract cover'd with Bears foot, that is bending and pliable; where is likewise a Number of Figures and of Names, express'd in the Plants.

Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723

But, alas! this Fit of Eloquence, like most other Blessings, is of very short Continuance; It holds him but Just one Speech: In the beginning of the next, he is as very a Rustick, as Colin

'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation Aaron Hill 1717

Rustick Phrase, a Bundle of Pipes and Strainers, fitted to one another after so wonderful a Manner as to make a proper Engine for the Soul to work with.

Spectator, July 12, 1711 1711

Courts and Cities, and distinguished themselves from the Rustick part of the Species (who on all Occasions acted bluntly and naturally) by such a mutual Complaisance and Intercourse of

Spectator, July 17, 1711 1711