georgic

Example Sentences

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I am hurrying on to Rome, and I have no time to write a georgic.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire

He had collected his scattered odes and ballads, and published them, with his ambitious georgic, The Hop Garden, in the handsome quarto before us.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

Such unpoetic toils never could have inspired the georgic muse of Vergil or Thomson.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)