"Arcadic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fruits, in its wild solitude, And fuel,—till advancing hours Apprised him that his frugal meal Awaited him. Ah, happy time! Savitri, who with fervid zeal Had said her orisons sublime, And fed the Bramins and the birds, Now ministered. Arcadian love, With tender smiles and honeyed words, All bliss of ...
— Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan • Toru Dutt
... just across the Avenue, the Athenaeum, at the southwest corner of Sixteenth Street, the Travellers; in the building that had formerly been the residence of Gordon W. Burnham, at the southwest corner of Eighteenth Street, the Arcadian, at No. 146, between Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets, the Manhattan, occupying the Charles C. Parker house at the southwest corner of Fifteenth Street, the New York, which, occupying another corner at the same street, until 1874, then moved a few blocks northward to a house ...
— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice
... that in cultivated society he had enjoyed more liberty of mind, more freedom of opinion, than he could taste in the company of an illiterate gardener. The gardener's son, though his name was Colin, had no Arcadian simplicity, nothing which could please the classic taste of Forester, or which could recall to his mind the Eclogues of Virgil, or the golden age; the Gentle Shepherd, or the Ayrshire Ploughman. Colin's favourite holiday's diversion was ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... Something in the half-mystical, half-Arcadian spirit of the words soothed me, lightened my thoughts, so that when, presently, Gabord opened the door, and entered with four soldiers, I was calm enough for the great shift. Gabord did not speak, but set about pinioning me himself. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... also joined the army of Cyrus with a view of being employed against the Pisidians. Among them were Aristippus and Menon, of a distinguished family in Thessaly; Proxenus, a Boeotian; Agis, an Arcadian; Socrates, an Achaean, who were employed to collect mercenaries, and who received large sums of money. A considerable body of Lacedaemonians ...
— Ancient States and Empires • John Lord
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