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sylvans

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sylvans - Natives or inhabitants of forests or woods.
See also related terms for inhabitant.


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It was a wilderness of sweets, but it was truly a wilderness; a domain of young, luxuriant, uncompromising poetry, where the "weeds of glorious feature" hampered the petty legs accustomed to the lawns and trodden walks, in vogue for the last hundred years; lawns, as Johnson says, "shaven by the scythe, and levelled with the roller;" walks, which, being public property, have been re-consecrated, like Kensington Gardens, by the beadles of authority, instead of the Pans and Sylvans.
For example, sixteen women and eight men portray everyone from the Sylvans in Act I to the Villagers in Act III.
From early times the countryside of Europe had been populated by sprites of various sorts-maenads, sylvans, nereids, and satyrs in antiquity, and in modern times elves, leprechauns, trolls, goblins, and fairies.
 
 
 
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