Pastorals is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PASTORALS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PASTORAL, a pastoral poem, play etc.
• a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life
ADJECTIVE:
• (of land) used for the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
• associated with country life
• (of a work of art) portraying or evoking country life, typically in a romanticized or idealized form.
• (in the Christian Church) concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance
• relating to or denoting a teacher's responsibility for the general well-being of pupils or students
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a literary or artistic work that depicts country life

Words related to PASTORALS

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How to use PASTORALS in a sentence

• He got caught in town, one hot summer, in pretty close quarters, and wrote, or began to write, a series of city pastorals.
• What an education and what men! Their descendants were just now passing in the streets, going to school to compose Latin verses and recite the pastorals of Massillon.
• Theocritos and Virgil use the name in their pastorals.
• We took a long walk with him the other evening, to the scene of one of his Pastorals in the neighbourhood of Grasmere.
• Shelby thrilled with dumb pastorals and a vague longing to do and speak in keeping with the spirit of the scene.
• The sole point worth notice in the Pastorals is the general sweetness of the versification.
• Soon after the publication of the mock pastorals, the two friends, in company with Arbuthnot, had made an adventure more in the spirit of the Scriblerus Club.
• The man who could not publish Pastorals without getting into quarrels, was hardly likely to become a professed satirist without giving offence.
• But love of luxurious display slowly transformed their pastorals into glittering spectacles.
• The poems, only fifty-nine in number, consist principally of short songs or pastorals, and narratives.
• He will then discern how insipid and fiat the pastorals of the same poet are in one kind of verification, and how excellent and beautiful in another.
• But his Pastorals, which were written in 1704, when he was only 16 years of age, were esteemed by Sir William Trumbull, Mr.
• If we survey the ten pastorals in a general view, it will be found that Virgil can derive from them very little claim to the praise of an inventor.
• The first and the tenth pastorals, whatever be determined of the rest, are sufficient to place their author above the reach of rivalry.
• Dorothea is also a favourite saint in these sacred pastorals.
• A Watteau-like country, plays, comedies, pastorals in the shade, a continual embarking for Cytherea, that would have been the setting she preferred.
• They are conventional pastorals on the Italian model, futile in plot and commonplace in style.
• The cry wrung from him by his grief anticipates the cynical philosophy of later pastorals.
• It is, moreover, a weakness common to almost the whole tribe of the Arcadian, or rather Utopian, pastorals.
• The Three Masterpieces I Among English pastorals there are two plays, and two only, that can be said to stand in the front rank of the romantic drama as a whole.
• Into the post-restoration pastorals it is no part of my present scheme to enter.
• It was probably not meant to do anything more serious than to pacify the Jesuits, and lend an apparent justification to the officious pastorals of the great prelates.
• Johnson said, his Pastorals were poor things, though the versification was fine.
• Pastorals, says he, must contain an agreeable Variety after the manner of a Landscape.
• Therefore a Writer who would not only write regular, but also delightful Pastorals, should doubtless run very much upon Description.
• Let all judge of Allegorical Pastorals as they please, but in my Opinion, they are not consistent with the Simplicity of that Poem.
• But we have greatly more Simple Thoughts in other Pieces than in Pastorals.
• He took not the Pains to form his Dialect before he wrote his Pastorals, by which means he has used more rough and harsh Old-Words, than Smooth and Agreeable Ones.
• And had we a Set of such Pastorals as these, I am satisfied they would take extreamly.
• Even among pastorals the improbability of this story is surpassing.

Similar words containing PASTORAL without suffix s

pastoral10 pastorale11 pastorali11 pastorales12 pastorally15 unpastoral12 pastoralism15 pastoralist13 pastoralisms16 pastoralists14 pastoralness14 pastoralnesses16

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