How To Use Arcadia In A Sentence
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The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
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English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
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a new one, because the Poem all thro is a simple and faithful picture of English scenery and English character, and the figure of the Farmer's Boy, wherever introduced in the illustrations should be an English figure and not a piping shepherd of Arcadia.
Letter 159
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If Acosta and Nuñez somewhat sophisticated it, two nights later Johan Kobborg and Alina Cojocaru - yet another first-timer - relocated its Arcadian heart.
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Exports from the city of Arcadia included wool, wax, silk, and kermes, destined for Venice via Zakynthos.
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One in five of the pilots in the Battle of Britain came from overseas and, far from fighting for an Arcadian Britain, some were revenging the invasion of their homelands.
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He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
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In the US, however, the European pastoral ideal, rooted in Virgil's bucolic visions of an unchanging Arcadia of shepherds and shepherdesses, has been transmuted by the capitalistic impetus.
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Aeschines was sent on an embassy to Megalopolis where he sought to dissuade the assembly of the Arcadians from dealings with Philip II.
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Werewolf: The original werewolf of classical mythology, Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf by Zeus.
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The putti celebrate the pleasures of life in vignettes representing an arcadian fantasy.
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The expanse of space south of Arcadia up the steep ridge will, over a period of some 20 years, be denuded of its black wattles and gum trees, and be replaced with indigenous acacias and proteas.
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We also found conglomeratic rocks on the Arcadian side, which indicates rivers.
Worlds in a grain of sand
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He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
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Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis, and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia.
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Admittedly instant streetscapes and arcadian landscapes don't seed at the same pace, yet they are both populist responses to the ‘problem’ of the built environment's rather tiresome insistence on weathering at a stately pace.
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The richest districts were most constantly changing their inhabitants; for example, the countries which are now called Thessaly and Boeotia, the greater part of the Peloponnesus with the exception of Arcadia, and all the best parts of Hellas.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Even as the drizzle mizzles down relentlessly on the site, it is a truly Arcadian setting.
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Though some of these works are significant Samuel Palmer's Arcadian landscape bathed in a pink-and-gold sunset; Arthur Melville's nightscape of Venice, golden stone rising through a velvet blue-black sky, they form in aggregate the least interesting body of work in the show.
Medium is message at Tate Britain 'Watercolour' show
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MEDITERRANEAN KIWI said ... please excuse me for forgetting to mention that the commentators know their greek well: the terms KLEPHT and EXOHIKO are common greek words whose meanings are clear. as for that word TRADITIONAL, clearly salmon klephtiko doesn't fit into the tradition: where on earth would an arcadian find salmon? and if an arcadian of the foregone klepht era ever managed to get one, i wonder whether they would ever think to cook it klepht style? no, they couldnt possibly have put it in their head to do so - it just wouldnt be TRADITIONAL (les kai kollousan sto noima tis lexeis) if i were an arcadian in the late 1800's and i were given a gift of salmon, i would definitely have cooked it klepht style, because i wouldnt have wanted even the NEIGHBOURS to find out what delicacy i was cooking ... what on earth is the traditonal method of cooking salmon in arcadia anyway???
Recipe for Salmon "Kleftiko" (Σολομός Κλέφτικος) and Kleftiko: Its Modern Meaning
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Arcadia" is set in an English country house in the early 1800s and the recent past and touches on such arcana as chaos theory.
Stoppard Play 'Arcadia' Next Up in a String of British Exports
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Here, rather than by the splashing, sunless cascade of the Gorges, is where to have your picnic, in a greenly Arcadian valley in the heart of the mountains.
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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You cannot imagine, Clarinda (I like the idea of Arcadian names in a commerce of this kind), how much store I have set by the hopes of your future friendship.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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Those who experienced the heady days of pre-revolutionary Egypt will still long for that Arcadia of cultural refinement and social adroitness.
On the Eastern Shore
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The richest soils were always most subject to this change of masters; such as the district now called Thessaly, Boeotia, most of the Peloponnese, Arcadia excepted, and the most fertile parts of the rest of Hellas.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The sculptures were secured to the ground by stones in her back garden on Arcadian Close, Bexley, along with other garden furniture.
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In Book 3 of the New Arcadia, Pamela utters her prayer shortly before she too is seen being taken to the scaffold for execution.
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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By temperament and education of a conservative turn, I saw the last years of that quaint Arcadia which French travellers saw with delighted amazement a century ago, and have watched the change (to me a sad one) from an agricultural to a proletary population.
Democracy: Inaugural Address on Assuming the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham, England, 6 October, 1884
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With a fortune valued at £4.2bn and brands such as Topshop and Dorothy Perkins in his Arcadia stable, Green has long eschewed listed companies within the retail world, memorably declaring that "floats are for milkmen".
Profile: Philip Green
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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In telling me of this he tried to recall his Arcadian name, but could only remember that it was "Olympico something.
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions
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The expanse of space south of Arcadia up the steep ridge will, over a period of some 20 years, be denuded of its black wattles and gum trees, and be replaced with indigenous acacias and proteas.
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-- At the close of the seventeenth century, a new dawn arose in the history of Italian letters, and the general corruption which had extended to every branch of literature and paralyzed the Italian mind began to be arrested by the appearance of writers of better taste; the affectations of the Marinists and of the so-called Arcadian poets were banished from literature; science was elevated and its dominion extended, the melodrama, comedy, and tragedy recreated, and a new spirit infused into every branch of composition.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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Even the most magnificent landscapes are powerless without figures, not forgetting Poussin's Arcadia, were it devoid of the shepherds and the sepulchral inscription.
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King James's Arcadian vision of untroubled togetherness appears to have been realized.
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Yet the usual signs of approach to an enormous city were awanting — dwarfed trees, market-gardens, cockney arbours, in which citizens smoke their pipes in the evening, and imagine themselves in Arcadia, rows of small houses, and a murky canopy of smoke.
The Englishwoman in America
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As I looked at this contrast between living, transient beauty and cold mortality, I thought: ‘Et in Arcadia, ego’.
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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At that check, the authors of these tumultuary measures fell to accusing the generals, as if they had marred the proceeding; and the Arcadians and Archaeans banded together, chiefly under the auspices of the two ringleaders, Callimachus the Parrhasian and
Anabasis
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Pelopidas went on to point out that the Argives and Arcadians had lately been defeated in battle by the Lacedaemonians, when his own countrymen were not there to assist.
Hellenica
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Years of comparative idleness enabled him to write and revise the Arcadia, and to complete the Defence of Poetry, The Lady of May, and Astrophel and Stella.
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Not only has the show reached its 15th anniversary but tonight also brings the return of the annual jamboree Hollyoaks Later, during which Hollyoaks gets to pretend it is Skins: showing flesh, gleefully swearing and generally revelling in the bacchanalian Arcadia that is post-watershed E4.
The post-watershed wonder of Hollyoaks Later is worth celebrating
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Salamis on his way to the realm of his sister Hesione, went on to visit the cold borders of Arcadia.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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The clear unruffled bosom of the water, which softly glided at the foot of the alpine hills, was environed with pastoral and arcadian landscapes, which softening the wildness of the steep mountains, conspired to render this spot as inviting as it was lovely.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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The privately held Arcadia, which operates clothing chains such as Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, reported an aftertax net loss of £122.9 million $190.8 million for the year ending Aug. 27 as it lowered the value of its assets and goodwill.
Arcadia to Close Over 200 Stores
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His new play, Arcadia, is as intricate, elaborate and allusive as anything he has yet written.
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The Arcadians are one of Oxford's best chamber choirs, capable of tackling this monumentally difficult piece supported by impressive intonation, articulation and stylistic awareness.
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His new play, Arcadia, is as intricate, elaborate and allusive as anything he has yet written.
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The disc's second half comes across like Coney Island arcane arcadia by way of clattering barrelhouse piano and broken merry-go-round melodies.
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To understand the fate of Arcadian consolations, in particular, it is important to understand the role bucolic moments and memories had played in consolatory work during and after the Great War.
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Arcadian idylls are also a prolific feature of writing in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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My builds are getting more and more 'slapdash' and 'elegantly sloppy' euphemisms for crap since Arcadia is not around to point out the flaws in them.
Arcadia Asylum's inventory... it's gone: asset server issues are calamities
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The image of sustainable architecture has tended to be of vernacular buildings in a rural Arcadia.
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Arcadia (1979), Christopher Reid has been producing work of rare quality and wit which, in typically modest style, he dubs "travesties of what might have been" ("One for the Footnotes").
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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The next day company leaders will conduct reconnaissance and begin patrolling the streets of Arcadia to identify possible locations of the weapons dealer.
Carroll National Guard To Conduct Door To Door Gun Confiscation Drills in Arcadia, Iowa
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There was a time when the two sexes were only one, but now God has halved them, — much as the Lacedaemonians have cut up the Arcadians, — and if they do not behave themselves he will divide them again, and they will hop about with half a nose and face in basso relievo.
The Symposium
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Italian and French operas and academies prevailed, and pastoral poetry, in which the god of Love was represented wearing an immense allonge peruke, and the coquettish immorality of the courts was glowingly described in Arcadian scenes of delight, was cultivated.
Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
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This is a more complicated story than just the loss of some arcadian past.
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Historically, as Leo Marx has noted, the age of discovery introduced into the Arcadian myth "a note of topographical realism," and, from the Elizabethan era until the late nineteenth century, Europeans tended to view America in Arcadian terms as a vast and unspoiled garden of "'incredible abundance'" (Marx 47, 37-40) .4
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
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Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis, and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia.
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Other goods sent from Arcadia to Venice were meat, cheese, wool, wheat, honey, and valonia.
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As the dreams unfold, we may start to recognize specifics of place, but the sense of Central Park as a lost Arcadia abides.
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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A wall was lined with books on subjects such as Arcadian architecture, roof gardens and sound environments.
Picturing Failure, Sketching Dreams
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The steamboat was the first man-made apparatus to radically interrupt the arcadian wilderness, collapse vast distance, and discharge the artifacts of distant cultures into remote places.
Mark Twain
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She said something about moving to Arcadia Springs to reclaim what was hers.
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While cadastral surveys were undertaken for the territories of Navarino, Arcadia, and Modon, none appear to have survived.
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Take2- minutes to see a glimpse of Claro's Italian Market, which has been serving the finest Italian foods and merchandise in Arcadia for38 years.
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Soon our valley in Somerset was fabled as a kind of nymph-strewn Arcadia.
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a country life of arcadian contentment
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If one gets away from the avenues and visits the largest city park called Leisure Valley, it has an Arcadian beauty of clusters of flowering trees.
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Living conditions in the countryside had never approached the Arcadian well-being implied in romantic notions of sturdy peasants following the plough.
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So, the mailman too was an Arcadian, or at least paid off to do that and put the letter inside of the box.
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We seek to become a multicultural community that celebrates diversity that is Arcadia.
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Arcadia is a fascinating play to read but tricky to watch, primarily because it's so clever.
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In my opinion, little honour is due to such as are mere lookers-on, liberal of their eyes, and of their crowns, and hide their silver; scratching their head with one finger like grumbling puppies, gaping at the flies like tithe calves; clapping down their ears like Arcadian asses at the melody of musicians, who with their very countenances in the depth of silence express their consent to the prosopopoeia.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Phillip Distasio, who said he is the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, represented himself at his pretrial hearing Wednesday.
Man says sex with children is religious ritual
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It became very difficult to imagine comforting future soldiers with the promise of an Arcadian ‘world-before-the-war’ when that world, the last ‘after-war,’ had rewarded heroes with breadlines.
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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University Library Director Robert Darnton announced that, initially, Arcadia's grant will be used to strengthen the Library's print collections, to support processing of 17th - and 18th-century collections in the Archives, and to underwrite conservation treatments for fragile or damaged material from 17th - and 18th-century collections.
Arcadia gives $5 million to support core collections, services in the Harvard Libraries
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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I could imagine the whole of Arcadia slowing slightly as it processed my totality, my thoughts.
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Arcadians, Antiochus, the pancratiast; and on that of the Eleians,
Hellenica
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In the neighborhood of Mount Erymanthus, in Arcadia, there lived, in those far-off days, a savage boar that was in the habit of sallying forth from his lair and laying waste the country round about, nor had any man been able to capture or restrain him.
Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)
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She used Arcadia to block Biscuit from escaping and re-captured the buckskin's lead.
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There was a huge effort led by a private ambulance company called Arcadian Ambulances (ph) to air-lift these babies out.
CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2005
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The value of prerace veterinary examinations was underscored when a state veterinarian discovered The Pamplemousse was not fit to run before the Santa Anita Derby in Arcadia, Calif., on April 4.
Horse industry works on more humane touch, increased safety
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There is something very Arcadian and un-Cockney-like in the idea of linnet-singing in Lock's Fields.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
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In his famous 17th century work, he wrote of the Arcadian idyll of the piscator, fishing the rivers of England for salmon.
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See a lovely passage on the subject of bathing in Sir Philip Sydney's "Arcadia," where "Philoclea, blushing, and withal smiling, makeing shamefastnesse pleasant, and pleasure shamefast, tenderly moved her feet, unwonted to feel the naked ground, until the touch of the cold water made a pretty kind of shrugging come over her body; like the twinkling of the fairest among the fixed stars.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
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Complete this section to highlight areas which falls outside the Arcadia Group Plc minimum standards.
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As soon as the victims proved favourable they all setout, the Arcadians following with the rest.
Anabasis
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Arcadia: A Supernal Realm where the Ruling Arcana are Fate and Time. Mages who walk the Acanthus Path claim a Watchtower in this realm.
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There were small paintings clustered in groups on the walls, some in gold frames and some in wooden ones, and they were Jordan’s favorite kind of art, paintings that lsooked like actual things, instead of being a collection of smears and blotches called Arcadian Sunset or Woman on the Verge.
Best Friends Forever
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The PTC is a religious oriented organization promoting “family values” which is clearly stated in their annual Best/Worst lists in which Joan of Arcadia and 7th Heaven are the best shows and everything tens of millions of people like are the worst.
The FCC, abstinence, teen sex and me
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The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
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Set at an elite New England prep school, this is a bittersweet portrait of youthful arcadia, in which a schoolboy commits an unpardonable crime in order to win a prestigious competition.
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Each adventure in which they are involved requires, in the ongoing revision that Sidney undertakes in the New Arcadia, further stories of unrequited love and unavenged death.
