Crossword-Solution: IDYLS
We have 31 clues for the answer “IDYLS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pastoral poems (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Works about the country | 1 answer |
| Tranquil scenes (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Tranquil scenes | 1 answer |
| Theocritus works | 1 answer |
| Thematic poems | 1 answer |
| Short pastoral poems. | 1 answer |
| Rustic poems (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Relatives of georgics. | 1 answer |
| Poems describing rustic life | 1 answer |
| Pleasant interludes (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Pleasant interludes | 1 answer |
| Peaceful poems | 1 answer |
| Pastorals. | 1 answer |
| Pastoral verses. | 1 answer |
| Paintings of country life, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Bucolic writings (var.) | 1 answer |
| Bucolic writings | 1 answer |
| Bucolic poetry | 1 answer |
| Rustic poems | 2 answers |
| Romantic interludes | 2 answers |
| Pastoral pieces | 2 answers |
| Pastoral compositions | 2 answers |
| Narrative poems | 2 answers |
| Pastoral verse | 3 answers |
| Eclogues | 3 answers |
| Pastoral poems | 4 answers |
| Short poems. | 6 answers |
| BROWNSTONE ECLOGUES AUTHOR | 10 answers |
| Poems. | 10 answers |
| A PLEASANT BUCOLIC SCENE | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IDYLS (5)
Browning published the first series of his 'Dramatic Idyls'; and their appearance sent a thrill of surprised admiration through the public mind.
But in the 'Dramatic Idyls' he did more than proceed with unflagging powers on a long-trodden, distinctive course; he took a new departure.
One can well conceive the delight which his idyls must have given to those dusty Alexandrians, pent up forever between sea and sand-hills, drinking the tank-water, and never hearing the sound of a running stream—whirling, too, forever, in all the bustle and intrigue of a great commercial and literary city.
Thus, among other instances, he told me that a Greek poet named Theocritus sets out in one of his idyls how a woman called Agave, being engaged in a secret religious orgie in honour of a demon named Dionysus, perceived her own son Pentheus watching the celebration of the mysteries, and thereon becoming possessed by the demon she fell on him and murdered him, being aided by the other women.
This body held every year a grand meeting which was a subject of intense interest to the whole city, and at which flowers of gold and silver were given as prizes for odes, for idyls, and for something that was called eloquence.
Quotes with IDYLS (1)
But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know it? The consciousness of misery is too serious a disease to figure in an arithmetic of agonies or in the catalogues of the Incurable. It belittles the prestige of hell, and converts the slaughterhouses of time into idyls. What sin have you committed to be born, what crime to exist? Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 56 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).