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Arcadian Literary Adjective rural, in an idealized way Noun a person who leads a quiet simple country life [Arcadia, rural district of Ancient Greece]
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| To me it seemed absolutely Arcadian, and I thought of Daphnis and Chloe and the early world. On which subject the young gentleman delivered himself in a language which might have very well become an Arcadian shepherd of old, and which appeared very extraordinary when proceeding from the lips of a modern fine gentleman; but he was only one by imitation, and meant by nature for a much better character. The trouble was that in this Arcadian phase of my history, I, who had come through, case-hardened, from the other side of life, was timid and bashful. |
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