"Silvan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Girald which had lulled into peace a spirit so restless and fierce. It is true, their exhortations had done more towards it than Gwenwyn's followers had thought possible. The Archbishop had induced the British Chief to break bread, and to mingle in silvan sports, with his nearest, and hitherto one of his most determined enemies, the old Norman warrior Sir Raymond Berenger, who, sometimes beaten, sometimes victorious, but never subdued, had, in spite of Gwenwyn's hottest incursions, maintained his ...
— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott
... and greyhound, say? Thy silvan spoil, we pray thee show it." "A good friend came across my way, And on that ...
— Proud Signild - and Other Ballads • Thomas J. Wise
... and war and sieges and sacks of cities, and shall there be no god to witness and preside over, to direct and guide, conjugal affection, that friendship of closest union and communion? Why even those who hunt gazelles and hares and deer have a silvan deity who harks and halloos them on, for to Aristaeus[96] they pay their vows when in pitfalls and snares they trap wolves ...
— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch |
