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  bucolic - Synonyms from Thesaurus.com
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  Bucolic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bucolic, although often used as an adjective, is a noun originally describing a type of pastoral poetry that praises rural life over that of the city.
The manner of a bucolic is usually somewhat fantastic, and the poetry tends to contrast the pleasant and pure life of the country with the corrupt and corrosive world of society.
The term derives from Virgil, and "Bucolics" is a reference to a collection of poems.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bucolic   (136 words)

  
 bucolics - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bucolic Charles Mound is the highest point in Illinois at 1,235 feet.
Touring the bucolic acreage of Blackberry Farm on horseback provides a wonderful way to enjoy the landscape.
Far from the madding malls, in the solitude of a bucolic grove, a centuries-old Christmas tradition lives.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-bucolics.html   (229 words)

  
 Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/bucolic
Morris appreciates most now is the mix of bucolic and urban: She can descend into the subway and roam the city, then spend hours in the botanic garden and "walk quietly home to check my tomato plants."
Paul's was a private Episcopal boys' school outside of Concord, New Hampshire, sixty miles from Windsor, in the middle of a wooded, secluded, bucolic nowhere.
Bucolic derives from Greek boukolikos, "rustic; pastoral," from boukolos, "a cowherd; a herdsman" from bous, "a cow; an ox."
dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2003/08/20.html   (153 words)

  
 Bucolic Dude Ranch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bucolic Dude Ranch is the perfect vacation destination for Colorado skiing and snowboarding.
Bucolic Dude Ranch r is easily accessible - we're located just 75 miles west of Denver in the heart of Summit County, Colorado.
Bucolic Dude Ranch r is Summit County's largest ski area with over 2,400 skiable acres and averages 280" of snowfall during our ski season.
www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~matsuura/aboutBDR.htm   (106 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Loeb Classical Library #028: Greek Bucolic Poets: Theocritus. Bion. Moschus by J M Edmonds
Though he wasclassed as bucolic, his extant poetry (mainly 'Runaway Love' and the story of 'Europa') is not really pastoral, the 'Lament for Bion' not being Moschus's work.
Most of the extant poems are not really bucolic, but 'Lament for Adonis' is floridlybrilliant.
The so-called Pattern-Poems, included in the bucolic tradition, are found also in the Greek Anthology.
www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0674990315   (247 words)

  
 Harvard University Press: Greek Bucolic Poets : Theocritus. Bion. Moschus by Theocritus
Most lovable of Greek versemakers, Theocritus was the founder of bucolic or pastoral poetry.
Though he was classed as bucolic, his extant poetry (mainly 'Runaway Love' and the story of 'Europa') is not really pastoral, the 'Lament for Bion' not being Moschus's work.
Most of the extant poems are not really bucolic, but 'Lament for Adonis' is floridly brilliant.
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L028.html   (238 words)

  
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For instance, Theocritus' characters evince a rusticity that contrasts sharply with the elegance of their diction, while Bion is said to diminish the distance between the reader and his characters who have become "mouthpieces for rhetorically expressed commonplaces" (p.
Reed then deals with those poems in the bucolic corpus that have been attributed to Bion, which he treats judiciously, refusing to be drawn into reckless speculation, as our knowledge of late bucolic is too tenuous.
The style adopted by the poet is also shown to be typical of Hellenistic verse and late bucolic in particular.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/1997-10-16.html   (1355 words)

  
 A BUCOLIC BETWIXT TWO;LACON AND THYRSIS by Robert Herrick
A BUCOLIC BETWIXT TWO;LACON AND THYRSIS by Robert Herrick
A BUCOLIC BETWIXT TWO;LACON AND THYRSIS by Robert
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www.poemhunter.com /poem/a-bucolic-betwixt-two-lacon-and-thyrsis   (175 words)

  
 Bucolic* on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Bucolic Scene, St-Hilarion back road, Charlevoix Region, Quebec, Canada.
Have a very bucolic new day (as well all the week ahead)!
Love the word "bucolic" and, yes, it's perfect applied here.
www.flickr.com /photos/97376099@N00/222543029   (543 words)

  
 bucolic - OneLook Dictionary Search
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Words similar to bucolic: arcadian, bucolically, eclogue, idyll, pastoral, peasant, provincial, rustic, rural, more...
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 (GC24AC) Provin Mt. Bucolic View by neoc1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Provin Mt. Bucolic View is located less than 3 meters off the Metacomet-Mondanock trail in Westfield, MA.
As of 11 Oct 03 - all new … Bucolic View.
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 Definition of bucolic - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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www.webster.com /dictionary/bucolic   (73 words)

  
 Bucolic (from CloudEight's Dreams II colection- http://thundercloud.net/stationery )
This is "Bucolic" from CloudEight's Dreams II collection.
If you use this stationery correctly (as described on our help page) your email will look and sound just like this when you use "Bucolic" in your Outlook Express email program.
"Bucolic" stationery is copyright ©1999-2000 by CloudEight Stationery
thundercloud.net /stationery/dreams2/d2-demo-bucolic.htm   (58 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Culture Page | Bloody bucolic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One male dancer, throughout the evening, danced with his glasses on.
The glasses are very visibly there, and it adds something homely and bucolic to the general atmosphere of Olympia.
Everyone again tall, the stage hardly supporting them as they almost flow over into the audience.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/445/cu4.htm   (957 words)

  
 Alpacas help many ease into bucolic lifestyle - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com
HOOD RIVER, Ore. - Standing in the green grass, with Mount Hood's white snowcapped peak on the horizon, it's hard for Marcus and Cathryn Whitman to imagine life any other way: the peace, the quiet — the alpacas.
Like thousands of other Americans, they ditched their former lives for the bucolic experience of raising the easygoing shaggy animals.
A relative of the llama, alpacas originated in South America and were first introduced to the United States in 1984.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14062125   (704 words)

  
 A Bucolic Setting to Become Even More Serene
It is one of Central Park's most idyllic landscapes, a small pond with grassy banks and willows draping over the water.
A restored water body, new aquatic plantings, improved pathways, and the addition of settee benches will help make this bucolic landscape even more peaceful for people and nature.
The $1.5 million restoration of the Pool has been made possible by a generous gift to the Central Park Conservancy.
www.centralparknyc.org /17613/21967   (160 words)

  
 Lancaster Online.com: Complete Coverage of the Nickel Mines Tragedy : Tragedy, bucolic image lure big media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This paragraph has appeared in numerous stories, from the Chicago Tribune, to the NBC News Web site, to wire services:
“The attack sent shock waves through rural Lancaster County's bucolic Amish country, a picturesque landscape of horse-drawn buggies, green pastures and neat-as-a-pin farms, where violent crime is virtually non-existent.”
Even the case of Floyd Landis, who won the Tour de France and then lost the title because he was accused of doping, became a story about bucolic Lancaster County.
local.lancasteronline.com /4/26361   (717 words)

  
 OEDILF - Word Lookup
Now our outhouse has more than one hole!
I had booked us a spot so bucolic
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 bucolic's Profile – Users at Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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