| 单词 | faun |
| 例句 | The others at Camp Jupiter saw him as a traveling oddball, about as harmless as the fauns. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The one with the fauns is the least damaged. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z No faun would look so purposeful walking up to an armed group of Romans in the middle of the night. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Hazel had never been so glad to see the faun. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He saw a curly-haired faun in ragged clothes running to catch up with him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The fauns had also taken advantage of the chaos. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The little bronze faun cast a shadow across the dry fountain. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Roguish fauns and naked nymphs peeked down at Billy from festooned cornices. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The deer were fauns who bowed to her over their hooves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Uh, were supposed to meet for breakfast. Would you explain what you did—I mean didn’t do? I mean...I really don’t want that faun—I mean satyr—to kill me.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It made Jason wonder about the fauns back at Camp Jupiter—whether they could be like that if the Roman demigods expected more from them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The grass was cropped short by all the unicorns, bulls, and homeless fauns that grazed here. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A couple of fauns had apparently just been helping it out of its armor. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z I always thought when Gram talked about magic, she meant fairies and fauns and forest trolls. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Roman fauns tended to hang around and beg and eat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There is even one stitched with the silhouette of dancing fauns as tall as the skirt itself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Only your gran could see us for what we truly are,” said one of the fauns. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Hazel imagined a mushroom cloud billowing up from the road, char-broiled fauns tossed in every direction. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At dinner, we sit at a massive table carved along all four sides with images of piping fauns and dancing imps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z From across the room, Don the faun yelled, “Hazel!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They knew better than to steal from temples—especially Pluto’s—and the fauns never came up here. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Why don’t fauns have jobs? Shouldn’t they work for the camp?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Percy called, but the faun disappeared in the fog. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He thought about the little girl Julia, the families with kids, his new friends in the Fifth Cohort, even those silly fauns. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Even the fauns were invited, since they’d helped out by bandaging the wounded after the battle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She took one last look at the bronze faun cowering before the sunrise and the Athena Parthenos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Below, she saw a mosaic floor decorated with deer and fauns—maybe a room from an Ancient Roman villa, just stashed away under this modern basement along with the crates of string and plastic swords. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The faun seemed harmless, but Percy still found him unsettling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Don the faun popped up in a nurse’s hat, a stack of cookies in each hand. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I would see the fauns arriving soundlessly, settling themselves in a graceful ring around the sycamore’s trunk. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z One was a faun—no, Jason thought—a satyr. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The visage of a young Philip Glass, looking like a tousle-haired faun, appears four times in “Chuck Close Prints.” Face value: Chuck Close, who revolutionized portraiture, has major retrospective in Everett 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Coming across it accidentally back then was like opening a wardrobe door and finding a faun and a lamp post within. High Maintenance: a cult favorite makes it to the mainstream 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The quartet of fauns scamper with preposterous, effete randiness; the Nymphs get caught up in their floaty bri-nylon veils; the Maidens chomp through their bunches of grapes. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 2010-09-26T21:30:00Z Like an ice cream cone on a warm summer day, his faun seems almost to melt into the stone on which he sprawls, drooping atop a limp animal skin. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Picasso drew many scenes at Antibes of bare-breasted women dancing with fauns, and of centaurs and nymphs. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The bawdy faun sculpture and the eight monument drawings belong to the Louvre Museum. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Pan and faun costumes with horned headpieces are a perennial favourite with the men. Festivals guide: fancy-dress tips 2012-05-25T23:21:00Z She meets a faun who tells her she’s the lost princess of the underworld and gives her three tasks to prove she hasn’t become mortal. Boyhood, Moonlight and beyond: the best coming-of-age movies 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z I think the faun was supposed to be this mysterious incarnation that would prevent me from dancing every time. How to Heal a Sad Body? Dancing Never Hurts 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z But for all of its prettiness, the performance as a whole lacked an essential sensuality, the languid daydreams of the fantasizing faun sounding more G-rated than erotic. Case Scaglione Leads the Philharmonic and Joshua Bell 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z She looks like a valkyrie and behaves like a faun. Daryl Hannah: ‘It’s scary being in solitary’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s tiny, almost like a camp chair, but the strapping is metal and the feet are—disturbingly—those of a faun. The Past and Future of Cemeteries 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z You can imagine its dancers as dragonflies, fauns, larks — though any such illusions or allusions come and go. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Here, though, all the dancers are the faun and their attention locks not on a nymph but on us. Review: Ohad Naharin Is More Than the Sum of His Imitators 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Visitors to the gloriously treasure-packed Capitoline Museums today will find many statues of the faun, associated with Dionysus, who represented the animal in man, simultaneously innocent, sexual and lawless. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z Then I thought about all those winsome fauns and beardless youths, the teenage writing sensations cruelly hyped by publishers only to be dropped as soon as they emerge from the chrysalis of puberty. Has any author's reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky's? 2010-09-24T15:14:00Z A jumpy faun in a concrete jungle, Justine is a legacy student and lifelong vegetarian. Review: Give a Student Some Offal, and You’ll Regret It in ‘Raw’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z When the young man declares dully that the faun must be naked, Diaghilev gets the snappy comeback: “God in His infinite wisdom created tights and a dance belt.” Review: An Impresario of ‘Fire and Air’ (if He Does Say So Himself) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z A letter to Lorenzo describes the figures as “three beautiful fauns on a small marble base, all three bound together by a great snake.” Inside Art: Matthew Barney Series Now Has Two Homes 2010-05-13T21:49:00Z All the girls faun over him until they can’t keep it in any more and start begging for answers as to what they did, specifically, to be deemed unworthy of his love. The Bachelor Watch: The Women Tell All, Say Nothing 2012-03-06T13:30:46Z The head bathed in red in “Tristan Dancing, Venus” might belong to a Matisse faun. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z David Gyasi turns in a wonderful performance as a faun named Agreus, who defies social order and purchases a nice house in a nice community and as one might imagine, the neighbors are not thrilled. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z “The certificate is a fake, ditto the signature, ditto the spelling, ditto the drawing,” she told The New York Times in reference to one of the works, a drawing of a faun. Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Artist’s Daughter and Inspiration, Dies at 87 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z There was torn wallpaper in all the rooms and columns with fauns playing pan flutes in the hallways. We’ve been children together, my daughter and me 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z It has only partly emerged into life, like a statue still half-stuck in the marble, or a faun forever frozen in place. Review: An Impresario of ‘Fire and Air’ (if He Does Say So Himself) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Mr Tumnus is a polite well-read little faun, who carries an umbrella, and has books on his bookshelf called things like Is Man a Myth? Cressida Cowell's top 10 mythical creatures 2013-02-16T08:00:00Z But that day, he was just a teenage student, taking a break during a long day, and Robbins was struck by the image of youth, by the idea of the faun encountering a nymph. PNB to mirror Robbins' 'Afternoon of a Faun' 2011-10-27T20:39:45Z Dressed as a gold-masked, glittering faun, she swiveled and slinked her way through introspective moves set to a Schubert song. Velocity's Fall Kick-Off: local dance variety pack 2011-09-24T17:22:04Z When Proietto returns to dance with them, his wary, hieratic stance is an instant evocation of Nijinsky as the faun himself. Russell Maliphant Company 2010-09-29T21:00:00Z The painted ceiling in the ward for bedridden old women cruelly shows naked goddesses and drunken fauns madly dancing. ‘Harlequin’s Millions,’ by Bohumil Hrabal It was about a faun — but not Nijinsky. Special Report: Fashion: Balenciaga for Today 2011-03-03T18:42:27Z There’s a Queen, a faun, a vengeful spirit, a murder and a sense of encroaching doom. Who’s a Hero? Who’s a Villain? It’s Anyone’s Guess in This Fall’s Best Y.A. Fantasy 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In the musical, his resemblance to the faun in Praxiteles’s famous sculpture is a thread that’s mostly dropped, and how could it not be? Review: ‘For the Last Time’ Sets a Hawthorne Novel in New Orleans, in 1950 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The faun’s more threatening relative, the satyr, is overtly Luciferian, with horns and cloven hooves. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z Estimates start at a few hundred dollars each for pieces depicting pigeons, greyhounds, rabbits, rams, dolphins, turkeys, owls, buffalos, sphinxes and fauns. At the Met, Honoring Kimonos and a Scholar of the Same 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The group favored the sensualists among the late Victorians — Rossetti and especially Swinburne — and Rosenblitt brings out their “pagan” aestheticism as it emerged in illustrations and motifs of the faun and the goat-god Pan. An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Aristotle’s “downhill slope” is topped by men, followed by women, then devolves into “hybrid offspring” like satyrs and fauns. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z But little actually felt contemporary in this lollipops program of swans and fauns that, musically at least, might have been one of those old-timey Hollywood Bowl “Rhapsody Under the Stars.” Review: The Paris Opera Ballet's Hollywood Bowl debut is a balletic, awe-inspiring feat 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Instead, he reminds me of a curious faun: skittery, friendly, interested but naturally shy. It’s the end of the world as we know it... and Michael Stipe feels fine 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z On a technical level, are the fauns are the toughest creature makeup for the actors? Carnival Row’s creators tease more creatures and politics in season 2 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z In Pan’s Labyrinth, Williams notes that the faun complements his surroundings, and vice-versa — when he’s introduced, he’s part of the landscape. Why Guillermo del Toro’s attention to detail makes his movie monsters stand out 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Body tightened by training, hair cropped, he saw himself as a shape-shifter – a bird, a wolf, a faun – in an industrial conflict. Into the dark water: Philip Hoare on the life and death of Wilfred Owen 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Grinning fauns, satyrs and nymphs parade nonchalantly alongside the frieze’s Belle Époque ladies, all in various stages of diaphanous undress. A Brothel, Repurposed and Restored, Reveals Another Paris 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Guided by a pale faun, Ofelia must prove her mettle in this strange world. The Moviegoer, Oct. 29-Nov. 4 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z In the poem, Mr. Wilbur, observing statuary in a fountain — “showered fauns” — concludes: Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Winner, Dies at 96 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Witnesses later said that the faun looked disorientated, confused. Incursions : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z A silk ball gown was decorated with vibrant images of plants and animals, including a squirrel and a faun. The World’s Most Luxurious Fashion Show 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z In Roman mythology fauns were followers of Bacchus, the god of wine, and Mr Tumnus says that Bacchus used to visit them in Narnia, and “the streams would run with wine instead of water”. From Harry Potter Latin to Hunger Games Rome: the classical jokes hiding in your favourite children's books 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z A grand ecclesiastical chandelier hung in a cavernous living room populated by a bronze faun and other dusty sculptures of gods and monkeys. Novelist Patricia Storace on How Shopping in Morocco Changed Her Life 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Because it’s the role of the faun that he plays in the fashion establishment, expressing primal urges in a setting of so much polish and BS. Paris Fashion Week: Rick Owens plays the faun 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z A troupe of travelling fauns was spotted around Piccadilly Circus, begging for scraps from passers-by. Incursions : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Michelangelo, along with other youths, was sculpting a copy of a statue of a faun. 4 Strategies That Will Inspire Creativity 2013-07-30T17:01:55Z The boy of fifteen quickly made friends with the stone-masons, and, getting from them a piece of marble, began to copy the antique masque of a faun. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z At last I sprang into the open garden, with its shadowy walks, and nymphs, and fauns; and looked towards the village. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Bacchus, with the legs and sprouting horns of a goat, that haunter of vine-yards, then his fauns constructed on the same symbolic principle, gave rise to the satyrs. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Two fauns are conversing: one inquires where live certain delicate spirits whom they hear talking about the woods, but never meet. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Lorenzo noticed Michelangelo’s skill, but saw that he was taking creative license by giving the faun a full set of teeth and a tongue. 4 Strategies That Will Inspire Creativity 2013-07-30T17:01:55Z Naked female figures fill every plafond, and fauns and satyrs, with the most licentious passions in their faces, support the festoons and hold together the intricate ornament of the frescoes. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z You have the morals of a faun; or, if your arms be lengthy, you are a reversion to a prehistoric type. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z November 27th.—We discovered the figure of an old faun, or rather a Silenus, represented as sitting on a bank, with a tiger lying on his left side, on which his hand rested. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z I must be gone: there is a grave Where daffodil and lily wave, And I would please the hapless faun, Buried under the sleepy ground, With mirthful songs before the dawn. Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z With brassy crash, dawn's corybants Invade and trample the vineyard: Like a faun I hide and watch them, A dark cup in my hand. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z These being are called by the Indians Banuanhon, who are equivalent to the satyrs and fauns of ancient times. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century 2012-02-03T03:00:18.817Z The Greek cymbals were cup- or bell-shaped, and are to be seen in the hands of fauns and satyrs innumerable in sculptures and on painted vases. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Two of them are young fauns, having the horns and ears of a goat. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Major Slingsby, a square, short, rubicund man of forty, with the face of a faun, bowed, and, without moving from his chair, seemed, nevertheless, to remove himself completely from the room. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z "If there were fauns and hamadryads!" she said softly, turning to him to soothe his misery. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z While under arms and armour wreathed In trophied guise, the marble breathed, A peering faun—a startled fay. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Drunken Bacchantes danced before them, waving the thyrsus, hand in hand with fauns and satyrs; they encircled a triumphal car, drawn by spotted lynxes. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The third boy is also of bronze, has silver eyes, is of the same size with the two former, and in a standing posture like them, but is not a faun. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The godly kings of thy people were poets and musicians when Pindar's and Homer's ancestors were still Peloponnesian fauns with horns in their hair. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z She took his cap from his head, ruffled his hair, saying: "If you were a faun, I would put guelder roses round your hair, and make you look Bacchanalian." The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Cold grow the sunburnt bodies and the white: The nymphs and fauns will lie alone to-night. Poems 2011-10-14T02:00:29.763Z Winged horses soar through the air; gigantic sphinxes lurk in the deserts; devilish fauns roam through the forests.... Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z December 16th.—In the same place were discovered another boy with a mask and three other fauns.... Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The citizens were no longer the descendants of Quirites, remnant of the Pharaohs or the Macedonian kings, but satyrs, fauns, bacchantes, nymphs, mimes and harlequins. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z I remember also that whenever we discussed Boecklin's pictures, those fauns, nymphs, and dryads which he painted, I always regretted that all that did not exist in reality. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z A huge purple cow, a faun on stilts striding down the Royal Mile and poster after poster for the "must see shows of 2011". Fringe on top 2011-08-04T23:16:54Z The stout cleric grinned like a faun, and stroked chin. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z We also dug out an old faun, crowned with ivy, having a long beard, a hairy body, and sandals on his feet. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z How she leapt like a stag! bounded like a young faun! floated like the swan-down on the air! Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z On the sylvan meadows nymphs dance their rites, accompanied by the playing of a faun on a flute. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The Italian is a child of nature, a combination of his own two conceptions of "faun"-like irresponsible grace and "satyr"-like animality; an undisciplined creature living in the conditions of modern civilisation. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z A still better illustration may be seen in the Art Museum at Boston on a full-sized cast of a faun belonging to the later Greek period; and there are other examples in the same building. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z This represents a faun lying down, who appears to be drunk, resting upon the goatskin in which they anciently put wine.... Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The carriage steps were rattled down, the host came delicately tripping like a fat faun in evening costume, and handed Cynthia in, Lord Artingale being apparently quite content. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Deep down among the weeds and water-lilies of the little stone-rimmed pond he had looked down upon, lay the marble faun, as he had fallen. The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men 2011-06-24T02:00:21.977Z He is properly shown as a satyr instead of in the faun form of the sculptor. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z The fighter's anger, the faun's impudence, Thou makest of all these a lovely thing; Proud heart, sick body, mind's magnificence: PUGET, the convict's melancholy king. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Yes, but he looks like a young faun. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z Its subject is a dance of fauns and bacchantes, which is interrupted by a satyr, who attempts to take liberties with a nymph. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z It was necessary that Christianity should expel the whole hosts of fauns, of satyrs, and of nymphs, to restore to the grottoes their silence, and to the woods their scope for uninterrupted contemplation. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z There appears to be no legitimate place in painting for a faun, while a satyr may at times be appropriately introduced into a pastoral composition. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z However that may be, his idea was to make Nijinsky compose, under his own strict supervision, a sort of antique tableau conjuring up the erotic gambols of a faun importuning nymphs. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z So what should be said of the faun surprised in the woodland dances, Of Harold the light of heart who fought with fear to the last? Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z Cicero mentions, that Ennius, too, though he classes Nævius among the fauns and rustic bards, had borrowed, or, if he refused to acknowledge his obligations, had pilfered, many ornaments from his predecessor141. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z At times I thought also that those sand-hills and empty banks might be inhabited by invisible beings like the ancient Greek fauns, nymphs, or naiads. Life and Death And Other Legends and Stories 2011-04-02T02:00:10.393Z Then the fauns danced in and made merry to the tunes that Pan played. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z The moonlight fell full upon the statue of a dancing faun beneath an acacia-tree, and upon the scattered rose-leaves around it. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z It was a gold coin, and I took it up and examined it eagerly, and read the legend about the figure of the faun. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z The Greeks, in their first poetical age, peopled every grove and lake with fauns and naiads, or personified the primeval powers of nature. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The stony faces of satyrs and fauns grin down upon them with triumphant cynicism. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z The little book consists of 18 pages printed from type on a special quality of Italian hand-made paper and decorated with medallions of fauns and satyrs adapted from old engraved gems. The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 Houghton Mifflin Books for Spring and Summer 2011-02-23T03:00:32.690Z Bouchard exhibited a nymph with a faun, quite in your style, only yours is flesh and his is putty,--a poor thing; but the critics exalted it, and gave it a m�daille d'honneur. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z It hears on the reverse a faun, with the legend VICTORIA. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z Pierrot, drunk with light and space, danced about like a little faun, and we ourselves, for an insect, for a flower, for a bush covered with bright berries, leapt like goats. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The imagination of the Greeks peopled the woods and waters with all sorts of mythical beings, among which one of the most delightful was the faun. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z Lilly was keyed up to too blissful a pitch to attach any significance to these strange words, which sounded like a joke in the mouth of the bacchic faun. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z In the midst of the golden glow was a strange group,--two nymphs sporting with a shaggy brown faun. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z But you only need to look at the faun‑like, impish Wilshere to appreciate how perverse this is. Barney Ronay: Why we must savour Wilshere 2010-10-08T23:09:00Z In the first half-hour Barbara Israel Garden Antiques sold ten pieces of statuary, including a doe and faun group for $135,000. 2010-01-27T11:29:00Z This is the "marble faun" which gives the title to Hawthorne's book. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z One represents a faun, with the head of Pentheus in one hand, and in the other a great knife. Heathen Mythology Here and there a weather-beaten, moss-patched statue or terminal peeped above the greenery, a nymph with broken features, or a faun, the leer still lingering on his discoloured face. The Princess Galva A Romance The dryads peer from the thicket as she passes by, and the brown fauns smile strangely at her when she comes near them. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man I hold her hands in mine and try to trace the ravages of grief on her faun face because she keeps saying: "I'm so miserable." Woman The Major wandered thoughtfully along box-bordered paths, past marble fauns and nymphs; between hedges of clipped yew and so to the rose-garden, ablaze with colour and fragrant with bloom. Our Admirable Betty A Romance There, in the springtime of the world, Are dancing fauns, and in their van, Is one who pipes a deathless tune— The earth-born and the urban Pan. Later Poems In the centre was an antique statue of a faun playing upon a flute. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance One of them, a pen-and-ink vignette of a faun, full face, signed with monogram A.V.B., was published in "Second Book." Aubrey Beardsley "And I presume that as a faun I should hardly be a success," I ventured. A Top-Floor Idyl "Hiawatha" is a poem of the forests and of the dark-skinned race who dwelt therein, who were learned only in forest-lore, and lived as near to nature's heart as the fauns and satyrs of old. Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 The red of exertion was high in her face, and one corner of her mouth compressed over pins, so that her words leaked out as through the lips of a faun. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Behind them as they stood, and facing the statue of the faun, was a cave or hollow in the wood, half concealed by the pendant tendrils of creeping and flowering plants. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance The faun was also excellently done by a young fellow with marvellous faun-like agility; altogether these unpretentious people realized the fairy-tale spirit, the wood feeling of the story, in a most imaginative, subtle way. Confessions of an Opera Singer She had just finished a portrait that pleased her greatly, and was about to take up a nymph and faun she had long projected. A Top-Floor Idyl But why it should be Michel Angelo, I cannot imagine, unless it be that his face and stump nose, so familiar to the people, are indeed like that of the faun. Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series A homeward-bound pedestrian is a faun in evening dress. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole The wide basins, the lions and dolphins, were here, with the marble nymphs, and fauns and satyrs, that make a shower-bath spectacle of themselves upon gala days. An American Girl Abroad Along the reedy river's shore, Fleet fauns will frolic unafraid, The bonnie bluebirds sing once more. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History One would have thought it impossible for this kind of poetry to have subsisted without fauns and satyrs, wood-nymphs and water-nymphs, with all the tribe of rural deities. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition And so vividly is his half-human nature here brought out that Hawthorne seems to have witnessed somewhere the mad revels of the veritable fauns and satyrs in the days of their life upon the earth. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 For all I know, I'm a faun and you're a human child. The Ego Machine He sprang forward with a spasmodic intake of the breath, and sped like a wild faun along the rugged hillside. Frontier Boys in the South Seas They represent hunting scenes, and the figures are those of men, women, fauns, satyrs, centaurs, and beasts of the forests, fiercely struggling together. Artists Past and Present Random Studies As tuneful Congreve tries his rural strains, Pan quits the woods, the list'ning fauns the plains. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition One feels that these were the very stories that were told by the centaurs, fauns, and satyrs themselves in the shadows of the old Attic forests. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 In dells of forest faun and fay, Moss-lounged within the fountain's spray, How drained we wines too rare to tell, Shall we forget? Blooms of the Berry What pipes on the wind but a faun? Undertones And this sylvan spot, aforetime the home of fauns and monsters, he thus cleared and made fitting for the glory of God. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens It had several falls, with marble steps bordered with box, with many yew trees, and statues of nymphs and fauns. Francezka His hairy skin he probably inherited from the ancient fauns and satyrs. Devil Stories An Anthology He had eyebrows that turned up at the ends like a faun's, giving him a devilishly mocking look. The Deaves Affair Yes, for there is the paunchy Silenus, there are the fauns, there the vat and vine- wreaths and drinking-horns. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I Besides Gillot, the great designer of fauns and naiads had returned there more flourishing than ever. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 So the nymphs as well as the fauns did full justice to the olives, the cucumbers, and the slices of sausage before sitting down to the tables. The Grandee We are continually forced to look at the menagerie, mermaids, and frogs, and fauns, painted in imitation of the hard, violent tones of Boecklin, himself a scene-painter, but not a great painter. Ivory Apes and Peacocks They were supposed to be found in lonely places and in forests, and to emerge at times in order to indulge in all sorts of sexual excesses, much as the fauns and satyrs of antiquity. The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races An Interpretation The group was in wonderful preservation: the figure of Bacchus intact, that of the young faun lacking only the arm, which had evidently been freely extended. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion In very early times, however, when wisdom was commoner than now, the classification began with gods and goddesses, heroes, men and women, with lower types like fauns and satyrs. An Ocean Tramp Gerald, while they took their first long, rapt look, stood at one side, with a smile like a faun’s when a faun is Mephistophelian. Aurora the Magnificent It might have been a Moorish city, in Happy Arabia 377called paradise, a city of fountains, and wooded glens, like haunts of mythical fauns. The Missourian The faun, lying on a rock, is watching for the nymphs and playing in a monotonous key on his flute. General Bramble Mamise was amazed to find that the strenuous business man had so much of the faun in his soul. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Did I know in those days of nymphs and dryads and fauns and all those happy soulless beings with which the desire of man's heart has animated the wilderness. The Passionate Friends He showed his eccentric three front teeth in a responding smile that had a touch of the faun, and asked whimsically: “Will I do?” Aurora the Magnificent He came like Pan, or a faun, or any other woodland thing, with no sound of his approach, not even that of oaten pipes. The Side Of The Angels A Novel He was a much-beribboned old warrior with a head like a faun and three red hairs on top of it. General Bramble A faun was usually represented as half man and half goat. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The rabbis undertook to explain the peculiar structure of these fabulous creatures, as well as of fauns, who somewhat resemble them. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) A servant in silver and blue livery admitted Hepworth, and pointed to the faun, who seemed inviting him forward with a fantastic gesture. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals The man outside balanced on the sill, crouching like a faun, head high, one elbow on knee. The Moon is Green Two mornings later M. Dumaresque stood in the Caron reception room staring with some dissatisfaction across the breadth of green lawn where the dryad and faun statues held vases of vining and blooming things. The Bondwoman Fairies and goblins, fauns and spirits, these are but names and personifications of a real life. The Soul of a People He should go naked as a faun; such things roamed about the primeval woods seeking what they might devour. Olive in Italy Again he would go about sighing, singing, calling to the nymphs and fauns and satyrs, and, of course, looking for herbs to nourish himself with. The Story of Don Quixote Jeremiah calls them fauns—the dragons with the fauns, which feed upon figs. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. "Well, then, what do you say to fauns and dryads?" Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Great moss-grown gods and goddesses, and strange hybrid beasts, and fauns and satyrs, and all so silent and forlorn, with the lush grass and heavy fern growing rank and thick under the stately trees. The First Violin A Novel The man addressed was handsome as a faun might be and as a tiger is. Olive in Italy But while delighting to describe the virtues of these denizens of the forests, these amiable fauns and jolly satyrs, I must not forget those jovial trencher-men, the curés of Le Morvan. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches The prophets in some places speak of fauns, or hairy men, or satyrs, who have some resemblance to our elves. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. "Who in Paris cares for fauns and dryads?" Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Booty was a slender, agile youth with an innocent, sanguine face, the face of a beardless faun, finished off with a bush of blond hair that stood up from his forehead like a monumental flame. The Combined Maze She gave me a cast of her faun’s head. Turn About Eleanor They are on their way to the vineyards, and like so many fauns and Bacchantes, only well draped, are with joyous hearts ready to gather in the harvest of the ruby grape. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Masters, from the barn, watched them and noted what a goodly couple, what a faun and dryad in clothes, they were. The Readjustment He still looked quite venerable, but with a suggestion of a faun, a Bacchus or a Neptune. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific The Pipes of Pan were calling, and up in the aisles of the hills moonbeams slyly sought and found bare-limbed dryads darting from the eagerness of wooing fauns. The Orchard of Tears I saw a picture once—some people feasting in a forest, and suddenly a little faun jumped from a tree on to their table and waited for them to play with him. The Wooden Horse What are the celestial gods, the nymphs, the fauns, the dryads, but the definite apperceptions of that haunting spirit which we think we see in the sky, the mountains, and the woods? The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory In their other religious festivals also, choruses of fauns and bacchants chaunted songs and held up individuals to public ridicule. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 When he was alone in the woods—and he was alone now—he was in touch with the nymphs and the fauns and the satyrs of whom he had scarcely ever heard. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" He helped her to put on the coat, which enveloped her grotesquely, led her to the low parapet which surrounded the figure of the dancing faun and stepped toward the door of James's studio. The Orchard of Tears He had searched there for some of those strange creatures about whom Tony Tregoth, the old gardener, had told him—fauns and nymphs and the wild god Pan. The Wooden Horse “You don’t know what you looked like standing there,” said Rupert, as simply as the young faun might have spoken. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim The master in sculpture was old Bertoldo, and Michael Angelo, forsaking painting, obtained some instruments and a piece of marble, and copied a mask of a faun. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Kissos—the Greek word for Ivy—was a young faun beloved by Bacchus, who accompanied the god of the Cup and of life, in all his strange adventures. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I can't afford a mile of sward, Parterres and peacocks gay; For velvet lawns and marble fauns Mere authors cannot pay. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Gods, fauns, and bards of heavenly race, And spirits, glorified the place; The deer their timid ways forgot, And holy Bráhmans thronged the spot. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse It is the place of faun and nymph and satyr, the plain where wars are fought and cities built and work is done. New Italian sketches The Evil Spirit.—Clothed in skins like a faun, he is lying in wait for the preceding figure. Diversions in Sicily I found poor Tim, not even swathed in wet bandages, among a litter of half finished fauns and nymphs and several attempts at a smooth-haired dog. Gossamer 1915 The description of the untamed faun as he then appeared is not flattering: his complexion sallow, his hair stiff, his figure slight, his expression lusterless, his manner insignificant. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) He stopped in front of a block of marble that was gradually taking the form of the mask of a faun. Historic Boyhoods Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arthur and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and "fauns with cloven heel." Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism And it was when you were chasing first editions of Tennyson, was it not, that you discovered your little head of a marble faun, which you vow is by Donatello, or one of his pupils? Days Off And Other Digressions I did a baby faun just before I left London. Gossamer 1915 Lo! from the dark Came waggish fauns, and nymphs, and satyrs stark, With dancing and loud revelry,–and went Swifter than centaurs after rapine bent.– Endymion A Poetic Romance The boy glanced from the fine, keen face of the Medici to the marble mask of the old faun in front of him. Historic Boyhoods The fauns forsake the woods, the nymphs the grove, And round the plain in sad distractions rove: In prickly brakes their tender limbs they tear, And leave on thorns their locks of golden hair. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II The only furniture besides the red leather seats and the central table were two tall white vases, and a young faun playing the flute, modelled by a promising youth named Michelangelo Buonarotti. Romola He chose for his model an ancient figure of a faun, which was somewhat mutilated. Strange Stories from History for Young People They seemed creatures scarcely more sylvan than he, sprawled, like a loitering faun with his hands clasped behind his head. The Squirrel-Cage "But," said Lorenzo, critically, "your faun is old, and yet you have given him all his teeth; you should have known in a face as aged as that some of the teeth are wanting." Historic Boyhoods This was the opinion of the Ancient Christians concerning the apparitions of the ancient panites, fauns, and satyrs; and of this form we read of one that appeared to Anthony in the wilderness. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Piney would be apt to suffer less if he were wholly the sylvan, irresponsible creature, the faun, he sometimes seems to be. Sally of Missouri The forehead of your faun is old, but the mouth is young. Strange Stories from History for Young People Queen Not at all, my dear sister; by all means seek your fauns and draperies and forgive me for prattling on quite regardless of sowing the tragic seed—ennui. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes Among the warriors, the heroes, the nymphs and fauns, they recognized their neighbors' children or their own sons and daughters; they were all parcel of it; it was their own triumph as well as Rome's. Historic Boyhoods I am convinced that I was a faun when the world was young. The Dude Wrangler On conic jars were bacchanalian scenes,— Nude chubby Bacchi, grotesque leering fauns, All linked 'neath vines that grew important grapes; And in the jars were rings and flowers of gold. Stories in Verse The next morning, when Michael went to remove his faun from the garden, it was gone. Strange Stories from History for Young People Prince In the very centre of your temple I would place a faun with swift, strange limbs, crisp, serpentine hair, and the smile of a demon. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes The words that he had spoken to Lorenzo on the day he chiseled the faun came back to him, "To Rome I shall go some day," and thither he now set his face. Historic Boyhoods She never had thought of him as a faun but now she noticed that his ears were peculiar. The Dude Wrangler The woodland heard her, the faun, The satyr, and things that start, Peering, heard her; the dove, crooning, complain'd In the pine-tree by the lawn. Helen Redeemed and Other Poems With that he led the way into the palace of the prince, and there, among the most precious works of art in the collection, stood the faun. Strange Stories from History for Young People On the right, just off centre a marble faun with grotesque features on a black onyx pedestal. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes It was a day of merry-making for nymphs and fauns and dryads, and all those who lived in the lonely solitudes of Phrygia came to listen to the music of the god who ruled them. A Book of Myths In his step was the fine free swing of the hillman, and the young woman breasted the slope lightly as a faun. The Highgrader There were enchanting angels, and there were huge fauns and satyrs. Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer She ran like a faun, hardly winded, with Alan and me heavily panting behind her. Beyond the Vanishing Point One could fancy the fauns and weird beings of old had taught the cadence to the first reapers of earth. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts When all the world was young, and nymphs and fauns and dryads dwelt in the forests, there was no nymph more lovely and more gay than she whose name was Echo. A Book of Myths From out the crowd stepped a slender faun of a youth, slim and supple as a reed. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old He laughed with a pleasing slyness, and gave me a dunt with his elbow on the side, a bit of the faun, a bit of the father, a bit of my father's friend. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn He stopped before this painting or that, scrutinized the corners to ascertain what artist had signed it; he paused an interval before the marble faun, which he recognized as a genuine antique. The Lure of the Mask "But a sad faun," was the young man's judgment, as the golden-brown woods god strode forward to where David Grief sat up with outstretched hand. A Son Of The Sun And fauns and nymphs and satyrs echoed that shout most joyously. A Book of Myths I have another in the house; but it is not decorated with fauns and satyrs and foliage, like this. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Ethel skipped into her bedroom and arrayd herself in a grass green muslin of decent cut a lace scarf long faun colored kid gloves and a muslin hat to correspond. The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan The fountains tall that leap upon the lawns Amid the garden gods, the marble fauns. Silverpoints Like the faun of Hawthorne's mythical tale, he loved Nature in all her moods; but Gallatin appears to have wearied of the confinement and of his uncongenial companions. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII So fair she was that for her dear sake fauns and satyrs forgot to gambol, and sat in the green woods in thoughtful stillness, that they might see her as she passed. A Book of Myths He carried off Una to the wilderness, but when the fauns and satyrs came to her rescue, he saved himself by flight. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Nick lived in that section of Chicago known as Englewood, which is not so sylvan as it sounds, but appropriate enough for a faun. Gigolo To which I answered that I was thinking of fauns and centaurs in the dark lane, and not of a witches' Sabbath; but it seemed he took it differently. A Thin Ghost and Others The side walls were decorated with fauns and naked bacchantes carrying vases of flowers. The Coming of the King There was a faun in him—a northern faun, of course, a wild man of the woods, unrestrained, but innocent, leading two bears, one under each arm! Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands He would be thoughtless because for a moment he had thought too much, too much for his nature of the dancing faun who had been given for a brief space of time his rightful heritage. The Call of the Blood No wood creature, no skipping faun or startled dryad dancing under the moon could have belonged more utterly than she to the fragrant, mysterious world around her. While Caroline Was Growing And always at such moments a vision of Jacob Crayford seemed to rise up before her, with large brown eyes, ears like a faun, nervous hands, and the tiny beard. The Way of Ambition “In time,” says Johnson, “his expenses brought clamours about him that overpowered the lamb’s bleat and the linnet’s song; and his groves were haunted by beings very different from fauns and fairies.” Romance Two Lectures We are reminded most of the faun of the Greek mythology. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation He had been Mercury, Endymion, a dancing faun, Cupid vanishing from Psyche as the dawn came. The Call of the Blood Athene represented noble warfare, Zeus was majestic dignity and power, Aphrodite love, Phœbus song, Niké triumph, and all the lesser gods, nymphs, and fauns stood for beauties of nature or of life. A Text-Book of the History of Painting And when he sported in the fragrant lawns, Goat footed satyrs and upstaring fauns Would steal him thence. Hero and Leander He was a spirit of the woods himself; one of those old fauns of the Greeks, and he was really there to punish the evil invaders of his island. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis Now If August brood on the valleys, If satyrs laugh on the lawns, What part in the wildwood alleys Hast thou with the fleet-foot fauns— Thou? Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III The dancing faun does not reason in his moments of ennui. The Call of the Blood Along each of the two unpierced walls, against panels of peeling stucco, stood a line of statuary—heathen goddesses, fauns, athletes and gladiators, with here and there a vase or urn copied from the antique. News from the Duchy However this Broadway faun piped in vain: no white-footed dryad came stealing through the ferns to gaze, perhaps to dance to the concertina's plaintive melodies. Police!!! The subjects of these roundels are Ulysses and Athena, a faun carrying Bacchus, two incidents of Bacchus and Ariadne, a centaur, Dædalus and Icarus, a prisoner before his victor, and the Diomede. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres Somehow the boy of the fountain has always seemed to me to be alive, and to have in him some human quality, like a faun or a dryad. Contrary Mary He had been like a dancing faun in the sunshine and the moonlight of Sicily. The Call of the Blood The sailmaker was a bearded Finn, with a heavy, darkling face and the secret eyes of a faun. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories He skipped in advance like some degenerate twentieth century faun, playing on his pipes the unmitigated melodies of George Cohan. Police!!! She imagined a determined Hungarian prairie, over which dashed disordered centaurs brandishing clubs, driving before them a band of satyrs and leaping fauns. Visionaries If there were fauns among them, and the children took their pointed ears for leaves as they lay sleeping in the undergrowth, they never knew it. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel But he wondered silently how Maurice would receive him, how the dancing faun was bearing, would bear, this interference with his new happiness. The Call of the Blood Because individualised love was an unknown quantity to the ancients, they ornamented their sarcophagi with symbols of ecstatic life, with dancing and embracing fauns and maenads. The Evolution of Love The faun, I imagine, stands for Rollo, the middle-aged lover of the country, into whose happy life other, more human, loves break with such devastation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 20, 1917 There was no color now in Phyllis's cheeks; they were as white as the marble faun on the mantel. Arms and the Woman It is such a look as might belong to that imaginary being of the Greek mythology, the faun, half beast, half human. Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation For the collection of sundry wagers the victors hurried into the near-by Hoffman House, where the presiding genius and stakeholder, Billy Edwards, divided attention with the paintings of fauns and nymphs that adorned the walls. Fifth Avenue Each city had a guardian spirit, each stream its nymph, each wood its faun; also there were gods to whom the boundary stones of estates were dedicated. Young Folks' History of Rome The sleeping faun, praised on from century to century, and never yet praised enough; so drunk, so fast asleep, so like a human body! Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Then you'd believe in nymphs and fauns, and Pan, and all those kind of birds? The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Goneril blushed; her hat had slipped back and showed her short brown curls of hair, strong, regular, features, and flexile scarlet mouth, laughing upwards like a faun's. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V I would exercise and so become a veritable faun. One Third Off She moves among the Frenchmen, Poles and Italians of her mother's court like that lady Shakespeare—or was it Spenser?—wrote about among the fauns and satyrs. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Naiads, and dryads, and fauns, and the great god Pan everywhere; oh, to think we may be actually surrounded by these wonders of beauty, and yet unable to talk to any of them! Austin and His Friends Doubtless to them it was a time as remote as that when Homer's heroes contended in battle or the fauns and satyrs peopled the wooded hills and plains. Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College Lentulus stepped nearer to the light, and read: Lucius standing by and hanging on every word, Cornelia remaining at her previous station rigid as the bronze faun on the pedestal at her elbow. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. There's something about him—you must have felt it—sort of impassioned sense of the gladness of life; when he has those accesses he's like a young god, or a faun. Success A Novel She held up an ancient brass knocker, a smiling faun's head encircled in wreathing vines. Kit of Greenacre Farm For our inspection certain pieces of furniture and statuary were unpacked and displayed—a bronze faun some three feet in height, for one thing. Twelve Men In the center of this enchanted circle there was a statue by Clodion, a joyous nymph, holding a baby faun in her arms. The House in Good Taste The woods are peopled for her by fauns and dryads. My Friend Prospero The dancing of the faun took one day a livelier and more assured turn, the joyousness became more real, and the worst of the vicissitudes seemed suddenly over. When William Came The striped French satin sofa and one chair is blue, yellow and faun, the Brussels tapestry in faded blues, fauns and greys. The Art of Interior Decoration It stood in that fair wide gallery where is the mocking faun, with his inhuman savour of fellowship with the earth which is divine, and the sightless Homer. The Magician And the whole story of the nymph and her faun lover, from his first peep at her to his triumph among the flowers, seemed to burst into warm life. Abbe Mouret's Transgression She breasted the slope with the light grace of a forest faun. A Man Four-Square The other was the Dream now, and these!… they came down, mad and noisy and bright—Maenades, Thyades, satyrs, fauns—naked, in hides of beasts, ungirded, dishevelled, wreathed and garlanded, dancing, singing, shouting. Widdershins People stared at us sometimes as though we were a faun and nymph; but they did not guess that our hearts were formed to match our wondrous bodies. The Red Redmaynes It is true he eats garlic, but then he can stand like a faun and couch like a leopard, so he is forgiven. Miscellanies And nearer, you could also see a cloven-hoofed faun who had surprised her thus. Abbe Mouret's Transgression I want something about fauns and nymphs in broad low glades. Mr. Britling Sees It Through "Poor little faun!" he said, with jesting tenderness. Max It had been a difficult struggle to escape from the mesh of the hills, from the music of the fauns, and even now he was drawn by the memory of these old allurements. The Hill of Dreams This day at the Earl's there is a great masque of Dian and her huntresses, satyrs, fauns, all manner of sylvan folk. Sir Mortimer But there is too much of Pan, the fauns and all those other ballet-dancers in his verse. The Art of Letters The frieze is divided into nine compartments, and the central figure is Bacchus seated with his panther before him, a vessel in his hand, and attendant fauns. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits Undines and satyrs, cupids and merry fauns, may spring laughing from under the artist's hand, but it is from the unyielding marble that these slender children of his mirthful hours are carved. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Whenever he felt inclined to listen to the old wood-whisper or to the singing of the fauns he bent more earnestly to his work, turning a deaf ear to the incantations. The Hill of Dreams But he could always see the room and Francey working there, and the slender, joyful body of the faun poised on the verge of its mystic dance. The Dark House There were depicted groups of fauns and dryads, fondly reclining in summer bowers, and listening to the liquid piping of the reed; or the wanton satyrs, surprising some wood-nymph during her noontide slumber. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists In the piazza of the palace is a very beautiful fountain, utilized by one of the oldest Roman statues, representing a faun blowing water from a conch-shell. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Each faun, of children strong and good Whose feet should roam the hill and wood. Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala I came across a sylvan statue, some faun nestled in the forest: the rains had stained, frosts cracked, suns blistered it; but what of those? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 And it was really the same room—a fire burning and the faun dancing in the midst of its moving shadows. The Dark House The Scherzo begins with a Saltarello humor, as of airy faun, with a skipping theme ever accompanied by a lower running phrase and a prancing trip of strings, with a refrain, too, of chirruping woodwind. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies In the eery light they might have been a fay and a faun in evening dress. Every Soul Hath Its Song Mr. Kirk has none of the Presbyterian abhorrence of fairies and fauns, though, like the accusers of the Orkney witches, he believes that ‘phairie control’ inspires the second-sighted men, who see them eat at funerals. Cock Lane and Common-Sense A young faun on the brink of a pool, startled at himself? The Vertical City He had heard, very faintly it is true, but loud enough to understand, the music to which the faun danced. The Dark House The fauns were playing there, and the sirens sang under the sea. The Morgesons It is good for us to lend a spiritual ear to these ancient whisperings, and hear nymph calling to nymph and faun to faun, as they caper merrily with the god Pan through the silence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator Suddenly he wheeled, flung himself into the big chair by the table and dragged the faun's head over to him. The Flying Legion On Cefalo's return he is met with bitter reproaches, and the act ends with a chorus of fauns and satyrs. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England A bronze statue of a naked faun stood in the corner where the light fell upon it, and seemed to gather into itself everything that he feared—a joyous dancing to some far-off music. The Dark House But I had other thoughts; the fauns and sirens were not for me, perplexed as I was with household cares. The Morgesons The faun is represented reclining against the trunk of a tree, partly draped in the spoils of a tiger. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous A familiar voice, issuing from the lips of the faun—a voice made natural and audible as the living human tones, by means of a delicate microphone attachment inside the bronze head—tautened his nerves. The Flying Legion Meanwhile a faun, finding Procri alone, tells her that he had seen Cefalo meeting with his love Aurora in the wood--a piece of news in return for which he seeks her love. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England We are all fauns and satyrs aspiring to become angels, ugly creatures labouring at our embellishment, monstrous chrysalids trying to become butterflies. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 A little faun, with mischievous look, is binding the faun to the tree with the tiger-skin. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous He put the faun's head back on the table, got up and stretched his vigorous arms. The Flying Legion Their meetings are interrupted by the advent of winter, but he finds her again at the feast of Venus, when shepherds, fauns, and nymphs forgather at the temple of the goddess. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Between them a small dancing faun in greenish bronze tripped a Bacchic measure with head thrown back in a transport of derisive laughter. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 He was a true Mediterranean, just the kind she had imagined to herself,—a faun pursuing nymphs. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Opposite me was another young man, with the curly hair and long, thin face of a Greek faun nursing a violoncello, and listening with a dream in his eyes. The Soul of the War At one end of the table stood a bronze faun's head with open lips, with hand cupped at listening ear. The Flying Legion They make a show of leaving Arcadia in high dudgeon, abandoning their families of little fauns and satyrs. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England He threw back his head suddenly—for all the world like the dancing faun—and laughed silently at the stars. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The faun, wrinkled and wrathful, took himself off, saluting her stolidly as he went away. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Nor have the dryads and the fauns been frighted away for good. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Don Andrés winking maliciously and laughing like an old faun, gave a sly nudge at Rafael, who was listening in deep abstraction to the story. The Torrent Entre Naranjos Like fauns, they combine a certain wildness, a dithyrambic ecstasy, a delight in rapid motion as they revel amid clouds and flowers, with the permanent and all-pervading sweetness of the painter's style. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts From the shelf the two stuffed birds regarded us dolefully, while the dancing faun, with head thrown back in an attitude of immortal art, laughed derisively. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Let your boat go with its hideous old faun, who is nothing but a drawback. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Else might these moonlit prairies show at dawn, The dew-swept circle of the elfin dance— These woodlands teem with sportive fay and faun— These grottoes glimmer with sweet Echo's glance. Poems Don Andrés would roll up his wrinkled face into the smile of an old faun. The Torrent Entre Naranjos Unlike the work of Raphael in the Loggie, these pilasters of Signorelli show no birds or beasts, no flowers or foliage, fruits or fauns, no masks or sphinxes. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts For a long moment the three of us faced the silent, disordered room, in which the little bronze faun alone seemed alive, convulsed with diabolical mirth at our entrance. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The younger one was expressing in English her admiration for some roses that were flinging their royal color around the pedestal of an old faun. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Hundreds upon hundreds of figures—statues of citizens, generals, emperors and gods—fauns, satyrs and nymphs—children, cupids and tritons—in fact, it seemed inexhaustible. Views a-foot You make me think of a faun of the woods. The Obstacle Race A Greek faun could not but be graceful; a Greek hero was of necessity vigorous. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts The other was a small, fair-haired youth of nineteen or twenty years, with limbs as straight and as shapely as the Narcissus, and with joints like the wiry-limbed fauns. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 From that moment, although he is not accused of the deed, the joyous faun becomes the haunted man. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook There was a handsome mantel, set with terra-cotta tiles, on which fauns and satyrs, nymphs and dryads, disported themselves in idyllic abandon. The Marrow of Tradition The ancient Italian tradition made it the home of fauns and dryads, wild woodland creatures, intermediate links between vegetable life and that of sentient and reasoning humanity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator They belong to the generation of the fauns. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts And he is a nice furry little enthusiastic thing; like a faun, rather; exciting to play with of course. Mary Wollaston There seats, which beauty once enthroned, In tattered damask stand; In gray neglect a faun extends A mutilated hand; And silence makes the festal board Mute as the stringless harpsichord. Poems Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat. The Devil's Dictionary The dryads peer from the thicket as she passes by, and the brown fauns smile strangely at her when she comes near them. Intentions It is true he eats garlic, but then he can stand like a faun and couch like a leopard, so he is forgiven. Essays and Lectures "Like what all the poets say—brown nymph and faun." Main Street Instinctively did earlier man See fauns and dryads in the trees, And find in universal Pan The soul of Nature's mysteries. Poems There was a marble head of an old faun in the garden, and this Michelangelo set himself to copy. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters The fauns laughed aloud for joy as the melody tickled their furry little ears. How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Neither fairies nor fauns, dryads nor nymphs of the forest pools, have really passed away from the world. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance The head is pronounced by the most experienced archaeologists of the district to be that of a faun or satyr. The Great God Pan That Past is gone; its sylvan shrines have crumbled; From lake and grove the gentle fauns have fled; Its myths are scorned, Olympus has been humbled, And Pan is dead. Poems It was even better than the original, for the boy had introduced ideas of his own and had made the laughing mouth a little open to show the teeth and the tongue of the faun. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters The decorative painter, whose pencil runs so freely in limning these half-human processions of outlined fauns and wood-nymphs, is asked at last to paint an easel picture. Robert Louis Stevenson Oh, the tradition exists everywhere, whether you call these occasional interlopers fauns, fairies, gnomes, ondines, incubi, or demons. The Certain Hour Why, he always seems like a faun in flannels! The Reef He was not asleep, he was not awake, stupefied merely, lapsing back to the state of the faun, the satyr. The Octopus : A story of California He seemed to partake of those obscure forces of nature which the Greeks personified in shapes part human and part beast, the satyr and the faun. Moon and Sixpence I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.— Walden Through the open door streams in a Bacchic procession with fauns and panthers, the drunken Pan in its midst. The Indian Lily and Other Stories But why among these statues only men and boys, athletes and fauns? Hauntings Over there—behind the marble faun,—quite harmless, and very pink, you'll notice. The Amateur Gentleman Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough "satyrs and fauns with cloven heel." Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 The basin is upheld by four alternating fauns and satyrs and about the base of the fountain is a procession of beasts in low relief. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition In this same room in the house of "Welcome," there was found on the floor a little bronze statue, a dancing faun, one of the gay friends of Dionysus. Buried Cities, Volume 1 Pompeii It was as if he were a fairy, a faun, and had no soul. Twilight in Italy Infinity waited a-tiptoe, tense for the coming miracle, and against this vast repression, her grief dwindled into irrelevancy: the leaves whispered comfort; each tree-bole hid chuckling fauns. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages For vineyard fauns too fair a bride, For me thy cup of welcome fill! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 The fauns stagger under the dark trees, carrying great sumptuous vases of agate and gold. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 In one of the largest and most elegant houses in Pompeii, on the floor of the atrium, or principal room of the house, men found in the ashes this bronze statue of a dancing faun. Buried Cities, Volume 1 Pompeii The boy capers in the doorway like a faun, with glee, his straight black hair falling over his forehead. Twilight in Italy Your philosophy is that of faun and nymph. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 He was beloved alike by shepherds and countrymen, and by the fauns and satyrs, birds and beasts, of his own kingdom. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew This young faun, with no other covering than a deer's skin thrown over his shoulders, is standing with his legs crossed, and leaning on the trunk of a tree, as if resting himself. Paris as It Was and as It Is They are probably the heathen fauns and satyrs and such,—one feels somehow that they are all men. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Little is left of the adjoining monastery except some subterranean vaults and the gaping oven of the ruined bakery; all ferny, mossy, given up to the faun and the dryad. Two Summers in Guyenne Through the broken window they saw the naked fauns and nymphs and satyrs rolling, dancing, shaking their soft hoofs amid the ferns and brambles. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Like him, the fauns and satyrs had furry, pointed ears, and little horns that sprouted above their brows; in fact, they were all enough like wild creatures to seem no strangers to anything untamed. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew His type is that of the Satyr in the "Légende des Siècles," who crushes Olympus, a type midway between the ugliness of the faun and the overpowering sublimity of the great Pan. Amiel's Journal The mendicant would wax indignant at the tale and would pursue the indiscreet maid with all the ardour of an old faun. The Quest If that statue could move like a faun, that is what Mercury should be; so it isn't easy to find an actor to play him. The Harlequinade An Excursion The leaden statue of a skipping faun would have been made out in a recess if you had known it was there. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution And, since Tmolus could not leave his home, to him went Pan and Apollo, each with his followers, oreads and dryads, fauns, satyrs, and centaurs. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Monsters of the desert, or demons in monstrous shapes: such as the ancients called fauns and satyrs; and as they imagined them to live upon wild figs, they called them fauni ficarii or fig fauns. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision Then there were fauns and satyrs taking aim At swelling apples with a frisky leap And reaching fingers, 'mid a luscious heap Of vine leaves. Poems 1817 My brethren are no more," said the poor faun; "and the very faith that left us sacred and unharmed is departed. The Pilgrims of the Rhine Amid the marshy fields and the factory chimneys of democracy, in the heart of the Plaine-Saint-Denis, in a little magic wood fauns were dancing blithely. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House The trees swayed with a longing to dance, and the fauns looked at one another and laughed for joy. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew It was the same head—but marvellously different—set on the body of a faun. The Shadow of the East There are in his company imps and grotesques, and fauns and satyrs, who come summoned by his piping. Imaginations and Reveries And the faun leaning against an aged elm, ere yet the midnight waned, the elves danced their charmed round to the antique minstrelsy of his pipe,—the minstrelsy of the Grecian world! The Pilgrims of the Rhine A highly civilized faun for her highly sylvan setting. Bertram Cope's Year The fauns and satyrs were quite still; and the wild creatures crouched, blinking, under a charm of light that they could not understand. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Having something of a foreign and classical taste, he set up leaden statues of satyrs or fauns at each end of the grove. Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey She liked best a sketch of a baby boy, lost amid trees, behind which wood- nymphs and fauns peeped at him, roguish and inquisitive. The Nest Builder Perhaps if I had spoken more tenderly, displayed a more Christian spirit—all that paganism, that talk about nymphs and dryads and satyrs and fauns frightened her. Memoirs of My Dead Life What did the faun in the beginning of time when a god surprised him or a mortal had the misfortune to come across him in the woods? First and Last Walking through the woods he almost expects to catch glimpses of hamadryads peering from their trees, nymphs rising from the fountains, and startled fauns with shaggy skins and cloven feet scurrying away among the bushes. A History of English Literature Kedzie screamed with laughter at some of the ribaldry and danced in a jostle of fauns, satyrs, nymphs, and maenads. We Can't Have Everything His face looked like the faun's, elfin, mischievous, happy as the springtime. The Nest Builder And it was this winsome faun that decided me to select this vase as the repository of my ashes. Memoirs of My Dead Life It is well known that the faun offered either of them cheese. First and Last Better a Dog faun nor bark on you. Collection of Scotch Proverbs Her quiet mind was full of sunburnt nymphs and goatish fauns with shaggy fetlocks. We Can't Have Everything Before Christmas Stefan sold his pastoral of the dancing faun for one hundred and twenty-five, and Mary felt that financially they were in smooth water, and ventured to discuss the possibility of larger quarters. The Nest Builder Pierrot, the white, sensual animal, the eighteenth-century modification of the satyr, of the faun, plays a guitar; the pipe of Pan has been exchanged for a guitar. Memoirs of My Dead Life Hidden among the wreaths of vines which adorn the jambs are the laughing heads of fauns. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain Their lives seemed linked to the trees like those of fauns or dryads. Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre Charity studied him across the table and wondered what he really was, faun or traitor, Mormon or weakling. We Can't Have Everything A clear, jocund sound, a mere thread of music, as from the pipe of some hidden faun, penetrated the room. The Nest Builder The boy's first encounter with Lorenzo occurred while he was modelling the head of an aged faun. A Wanderer in Florence "Pipes of Pan!" exclaimed Migwan, and both girls glanced around, half expecting to see the graceful form of a faun gliding toward them among the trees. The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin Or, Paddles Down He is especially angry with the people of faery, and describes the faun- like feet that are so common among them, who are indeed children of Pan, to prove them children of Satan. The Celtic Twilight Ah, surely, this is some sportsman,—"the hunter's call, to faun and dryad known." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 One of these, a stream reflecting a high spring sky between banks of young meadow grass, showed a little faun skipping merrily in the distance. The Nest Builder The Brutus is powerful and modern and realistic; while Bacchus is steeped in the Greek spirit, and the little faun hiding behind him is the very essence of mischief. A Wanderer in Florence Listen very carefully, and you will hear the hoofs of fauns rustling among the fallen leaves; they are watching us, Patricia, from behind every tree-bole. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations This picture in the Dresden Gallery is a scene from the mythical story of a goddess who fell in love with the youthful son of a faun and a naiad. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People The old Greek mythology is full of images of joy, of lightness, and vivacity; nymphs and fauns, dryads and hamadryads, and all sportive creations. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 On the mantlepiece stood Mary's traveling clock and the two brass candlesticks, and above it Stefan's pastoral of the stream and the dancing faun was tacked upon the wall. The Nest Builder And I, watching constantly as I did, saw a riotous throw of the confetti, a mirthful smile of Carnival spirits, when my father was radiant for a few moments with a youth's, a faun's merriment. Memories of Hawthorne Into the desert without, the fauns of the forest are driven, But by devotion is lent life more sublime to the stone. The Poems of Schiller — Third period Like a clumsy faun, imitating the dance of the nymphs, so the bed-cover with its awkward folds outlined her delicate form. Mogens and Other Stories M. d'Asterac, after this assurance, left us standing at the statue of the faun, who continued to play the flute without taking any notice of his head, fallen into the grass. The Queen Pedauque Returning to the studio, he pulled out a clean canvas and began a vigorous drawing of two fauns chasing each other round a tree. The Nest Builder Mention my name to Una; for in some dim remembrance of Concord meadows I may then figure as a shadowy faun. Memories of Hawthorne Blair's face, which had been as irresponsible as a young faun's, suddenly showed those scars of thwarted desire which mean age. The Iron Woman When you returned you would enchant our ears With tales and songs which did entice the fauns,3 With Pan their King from their green haunts, to hear. Proserpine and Midas A young faun, his head fallen to the ground, still tried to put his flute to his lips. The Queen Pedauque For the next three days Felicity Berber, creator of raiment, shut in her pastoral fitting room and surrounded by her chief acolytes, sat at a table opposite Stefan's dancing faun, and designed spring gowns. The Nest Builder Look, now, at these fauns and dryads among the shrubs upon the stage, pausing in startled wonder at the first blast of music which proclaims the exit of the goddess from her temple.' Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face The ground was too open, the faun would soon overtake her. Celibates The Curtain rises and discovers Tmolus seated on a throne of turf, on his right hand Apollo with his lyre, attended by the Muses; on the left, Pan, fauns, &c. Proserpine and Midas There were, indeed, no Greek heads; but the bronzed lithe figures, naked save for loin-cloth and sandals, and most sculpturesquely muscled, might well have inspired some vase-design of dancing fauns. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation After her signature, was stamped, by way of seal, a tiny woodcut of Stefan's faun. The Nest Builder I reached the statue of the faun, which leered and writhed its leathery tongue at me; and in the bay which opened out beyond it I found Aurelia and the count together. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca Morton remembered a drawing of fauns and nymphs. Celibates Calm yourself, Midas; none believe the tale, Some impious man or gamesome faun dares feign In vile contempt of your most royal ears. Proserpine and Midas The absence of his two upper front teeth gave to his mouth when speaking, and to his sharp chin with its few scattered hairs, the strangeness of a senile faun. Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian Then the fauns and satyrs gathered round the Lady, wondering at her beauty, pitying her "fair blubbered face." English Literature for Boys and Girls Then, still pursued by the flying amorettes, the bacchantes, fauns, satyrs, nymphs, and youths depart in various directions. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music There the long branches of the beeches swept the heads of the ferns, and, in mysterious hollows, ferns made mysterious shade, places where nymphs and fauns might make noonday festival. Celibates Midas, you are my friend, for you have saved And hospitably welcomed my old faun; Choose your reward, for here I swear your wish, Whatever it may be, shall be fulfilled. Proserpine and Midas Attilio Piccirilli An awkward, somewhat bashful, wholly boyish faun - his costume an ivy crown. Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts But here in her direst need Una found new friends in a troupe of fauns and satyrs who were playing in the forest. English Literature for Boys and Girls Satyrs and fauns have appeared from the cleft of the rocks and, dancing the while, force their way between the bacchantes and lovers, increasing the disorder by chasing the nymphs. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Upholding Beauty and the Beast are fauns and satyrs, playing on their pipes. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition The cynic faun whom I have known betrays A dangerous mood at night, and seems austere Beneath the autumn noon's distempered rays, In this, the ebb-tide of the year. The Five Books of Youth Since the day When Bacchus took us poets into pay With fauns and satyrs, the celestial Nine Have smelt each morning of last evening's wine. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry I dreamed of nymphs and satyrs, of fauns and dryads, and of the young Endymion who, on just such another night, in just such another leafy bower, waited the coming of his goddess. The Broad Highway With a person of such resilient temperament, one who gamboled through life like a faun, argument was difficult. The Auction Block There are marble and bronze statues skillfully distributed amid the shrubbery—shy nymphs, peeping fauns, bold satyrs. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life In time his expenses brought clamours about him that overpowered the lamb's bleat and the linnet's song, and his groves were haunted by beings very different from fauns and fairies. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 It has the sage's brows, and the sunny malice of a faun lurks at the corners of the half-closed lips drawn in an idle wariness of half tension. Complete Short Works of George Meredith In single file they marched, weaving in concentric circles, now with their heads thrown back, now bent over their instruments like piping fauns. Flappers and Philosophers In the middle stood a dancing faun in blood red marble, also esteemed a precious work of art. Veranilda Had Pan piped there no one had marvelled, nor though fauns had scurried past sheltering clumps of azaleas. Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley He would have given us a history like the legends of Greek mythology, full of the adventures of gods and goddesses, nymphs, fauns, and satyrs. Atlantis : the antediluvian world Oh, pagan gods and goddesses and fauns and fairies, tell me why? The Secret Power Then, without a word, she moved towards the bole of a tree and flung herself down with all the supple grace of a young faun. The Lamp of Fate He was utterly pagan—a faun—and at the same time he was truly of the smart world. The Titan In their interstices, viewed from a distance, appear glimpses of gay dresses, groups of figures in repose, stands loaded with fruit and flowers, and innumerable white marble statues of fauns and wood-nymphs. Antonina The nymphs of the wood and the spring, the hamadryads of the forests, the fauns and satyrs should reign once more in the woods before they placed the sceptre in the hands of winter. Frederick the Great and His Family And no one heard her, except the birds and a squirrel or two, and perhaps a stone faun, whose pretty face seemed to turn a laughing look on her as she raced past its pedestal. The Enchanted Castle As I gaze thereon, I swear, Peopled grows the vacant air, Fables, myths alone are real, White-clad sylph-like figures steal 'Twixt the bushes, o'er the lawn, Goddess, nymph, undine, and faun. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 In a moment his clothes were on the ground behind a laurel thicket, and his slim white body was flashing like a faun through the reeds and bushes up stream. The Last Stetson |
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