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Definition of Idylls
1. idyll [n] - See also: idyll
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idylls
Literary usage of Idylls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"THE idylls of the King are not often given a place in the English course of a High
... The difficulties in the way of reading the idylls in a preparatory ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"And now that it has come, none we presume will be disappointed to find that it
has taken the shape of an addition to the " idylls of the King. ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1898)
"It is not to be supposed that Tennyson chose for his work the very modest title
idylls of the King instead of a more ambitious one because he had not ..."
4. English Poetry: Its Principles and Progress, with Representative by Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young (1904)
"Such a view of the idylls would detract greatly from their simple epic interest
... In every one of the idylls the blighting influence of their sin is felt. ..."
5. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"AN EVICTION.1 From ' Herself,' in ' Irish idylls.' When John died, the land-agent
wrote to his employer at the Carlton that the widow's ever paying up ..."
6. Tennyson: His Homes, His Friends, and His Work by Elisabeth Luther Cary (1898)
"THE "idylls OF THE KING." WHEN, in 1885, Tennyson introduced " Balin and Balan "
into the volume called Tire- sias and Other Poems, he doubtless felt that ..."
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