All 3 Uses of
pastoral
in
Bleak House
- The Sol's Arms has discontinued the Harmonic Meetings for the season, and Little Swills is engaged at the Pastoral Gardens down the river, where he comes out in quite an innocent manner and sings comic ditties of a juvenile complexion calculated (as the bill says) not to wound the feelings of the most fastidious mind.†
Chpt 19-21
- This present shepherd, our pastoral Richard, brightens the dull Inns of Court by making Fortune and her train sport through them to the melodious notes of a judgment from the bench.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- Then does she twirl and twine, a pastoral nymph of good family, through the mazes of the dance.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(pastoral as in: a pastoral scene) relating to the countryside -- especially idealizing charmingly simple and serene country life