Of rural occupations we have the beekeepers, ploughmen, shepherds, neatherds, goatherds, and swineherds.

Stromboli had sent to Italy for a Neapolitan clay figure of a shepherd, cleverly modelled and painted, and vaguely resembling himselfhe had been a Calabrian goatherd.

We admit all that the goatherd certifies.

The characters in Theocritus, are shewn to be distinguished into three classes,herdsmen, shepherds, and goatherds; the first of which was superior to the next, as that in its turn was to the third; and this distinction is proved to have been accurately observed, as to allusions and images.

No one lives at Tipon now, although little shepherd boys and goatherds frequent the neighborhood.

He, undismayed, shouted out: "The same poet, however, says: 'Who once were goatherds now have royal power.'" and suffered no harm for his behavior.

As one cannot tie one's money up with a boot-lace, it is wise to carry it safely, and cheat the goatherds, who may surely make a profitable living out of the various treasures lost by Ski-ers, which appear on the slopes after the snow melts.

Lone were the hills, save where supine The dozing goatherd lay, Or, at a rude and broken shrine, The peasant knelt to pray; Or where athwart the distant blue Thin saffron clouds ascend, As Carbonari, hid from view, Their smouldering embers tend.

The goatherd shuddered to recognise in the last speaker his next neighbour, who seemed all at once to have grown old; but he had lost all desire to inquire further.

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On the floor are seated the goatherd and his sister, with the muzzled house-dog and pet lamb of the family, and through the open portal in the background is a distant view of the Guadarama mountainsIt is next to impossible for us to do justice to the diversified character of this picture.

Once, when a herd of little goats trotted by, he stood aside and laughed uproariously, and the goatherd's dog, bristling, snapped in passing at his legs.

He must have been alive when the goatherd passed just now.

"A good fellow," he said in French to the goatherd.

The goatherd looked at him curiously.

" The goatherd fingered his collection, trying the blades on his broad thumb.

Came herdsmen, shepherds came, and goatherds came; All asked what ailed the lad.

One of the goatherds of the same bucolic poet wishes he were a bee that he might fly to the grotto of Amaryllis.

So the boy decided to go in search of his mother and he set off, and first he met some goatherds and he sang to them: "Ho, Ho, goatherds Have you seen the Jhades Jogi On this road?"

So the boy decided to go in search of his mother and he set off, and first he met some goatherds and he sang to them: "Ho, Ho, goatherds Have you seen the Jhades Jogi On this road?"

They were entitled Eglogae (i.e. aeglogae), by which, as Dr. Johnson remarked, Petrarch, finding no appropriate meaning in the form eclogae, 'meant to express the talk of goatherds, though it will only mean the talk of goats.'

Even Symonds wrote of Theocritus, possibly with Fontenelle's words in his mind: 'As it is, we find enough of rustic grossness on his pages, and may even complain that his cowherds and goatherds savour too strongly of their stables.'

A goatherd played upon a pipe.

Suddenly a figure rose just before me, where the land made out a little farther on a point of the crag, so strange that I was startled; but straightway I knew the goatherd, the curling locks, the olive face, the garments of goatskin and leather on his limbs.

No railroad or other modern innovation penetrates into those Arcadian regions, where the goatherd plays upon his pipe all the day long, the picture of peace and innocence, or prowls in the passes with a murderous long gun, if there are foreigners in the air.