In this idealized past, “ the people should have no use for any form of writing save knotted ropes, should be contented with their food, pleased with their clothing, satisfied with their homes, should take pleasure in their rustic tasks.

In a more obvious sense, the title also alludes to the ideal of nature as a rustic paradise, with the landscaping of the estate to give a less stylised, irregular form as a major theme in the play.

It is a close-knit and rustic community bounded by the Little Gunpowder Falls river ( to the northeast ) and the Big Gunpowder Falls river ( to the southwest ) which join to form the Gunpowder River.

He did not see the form as merely a recording of a prior rustic way of life but a guise for political discourse, which other forms had previously neglected.

The rustic ambiance encouraged a freer articulation of architectural form at the royal hunting lodge of the Palazzina di Stupinigi ( 1729 ).

Burton's buildings were in a " rustic " style, with the ticket office in the form of a thatched cottage.

The meat was cubed, salted and cured, cooked slowly over low heat until very tender, then raked into small shreds and blended with the warm cooking fat to form a rustic paste.

Lin Sheng-hsiang of Labor Exchange Band has described the style as " a very rustic and urban-rooty form of music, normally with a keyboard, which has replaced the accordion, and drums accompanying the singers.

and gate in the form of a simple rustic building with an elegant

Gardens also often include small, austere houses for solitude and meditation, sometimes in the form of rustic fishing huts, and isolated buildings which serve as libraries or studios ( shufang ).

A well-tended topiary of traditional form, perhaps a cone-shape in tiers, or a conventionalised peacock, would be part of the repertory, to which the leisured creators of " cottage gardens " would add a sun-dial, crazy paving on paths with thyme in the interstices, and a rustic seat, generally missing in the earlier cottage gardens.

The assisting musicians from the Vienna Octet are somewhat lacking in expertise, but their contribution is rustic and appealing.

Adjacent to the pool is a sauna executed in a rustic style, alluding to both Finnish and Japanese precedents.

It is more rustic than the castle, and was often the home of Charles and Diana when they visited.

Some Boeotian vase-paintings show a caricature version of the episode, acted out by dwarf pygmies with negroid attributes, and an aged and lame Odysseus leaning on a staff ; they are the mute survivors of some rustic comedy tradition that is impenetrable to us.

It is what could be called a rustic cuisine — locally available ingredients predominate, and preparation is simple.

Acadian refugees, who largely came from what is now modern-day New Brunswick and Nova Scotia adapted their French rustic cuisine to local ingredients such as rice, crawfish, sugar cane, and sassafras.

My subject is a barren one – the world of nature, or in other words life ; and that subject in its least elevated department, and employing either rustic terms or foreign, many barbarian words that actually have to be introduced with an apology.

Billy Budd's physical attractiveness is described in quasi-feminine terms: " As the Handsome Sailor, Billy Budd's position aboard the seventy-four was something analogous to that of a rustic beauty transplanted from the provinces and brought into competition with the highborn dames of the court.

However, the tradition of not losing rural roots continues today, and minestrone is now known in Italy as belonging to the style of cooking called " cucina povera " ( literally " poor kitchen ") meaning dishes that have rustic, rural roots, as opposed to " cucina nobile " or the cooking style of the artistocracy and nobles.

Paganism ( from Latin paganus, meaning " country dweller ", " rustic ") is a blanket term, typically used to refer to religious traditions which are polytheistic or indigenous.

The term pagan is from the Latin paganus, an adjective originally meaning " rural ", " rustic ", or " of the country.

* ( i ) The older sense of classical Latin pāgānus is " of the country, rustic " ( also as noun ).

However, it is uncontroversial that a Robin and Marion figured in 13th-century French " pastourelles " ( of which Jeu de Robin et Marion c. 1280 is a literary version ) and presided over the French May festivities, " this Robin and Marion tended to preside, in the intervals of the attempted seduction of the latter by a series of knights, over a variety of rustic pastimes.

The characters in these early, baroque zarzuelas were a mixture of gods, mythological creatures and rustic or pastoral comedy characters ; Antonio de Literes's popular Acis y Galatea ( 1708 ) is yet another example.

" Of his face, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: " is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and rustic, though courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior.

I can only say, for your comfort, I hope, that the ' Sam Gamgee ' of my story is a most heroic character, now widely beloved by many readers, even though his origins are rustic.

Chatworth's Strid is a placid stretch of water fringed with rocks and luxuriant vegetation and crossed by a rustic bridge.

In Greek religion and mythology, Pan (, Pān ) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs.

With his homeland in rustic Arcadia, he is recognized as the god of fields, groves, and wooded glens ; because of this, Pan is connected to fertility and the season of spring.

The faun (,, phaunos ) is a rustic forest god or goddess ( genii ) of Roman mythology often associated with enchanted woods and the Greek god Pan.

* LathArt How to and Patterns LathArt is similar to Marquetry, but more rustic

The county contains no incorporated towns and is among the more rustic of the counties of Virginia.

It is similar to Cajun cuisine in ingredients ( such as the holy trinity ), but the important distinction is that Cajun cuisine arose from the more rustic, provincial French cooking adapted by the Acadians to Louisiana ingredients, whereas the cooking of the Louisiana Creoles tended more toward classical European styles adapted to local foodstuffs.

He also painted thirteen reclining nudes, with his Les Repos ( 1860 ) strikingly similar in pose to Ingres famous Le Grande Odalisque ( 1814 ), but Corot's female is instead a rustic bacchante.

In many contemporary portrayals the companions look like dark, sinister, or rustic versions of Nicholas himself, with a similar costume but with a darker color scheme.

This " wormy " wood has since become fashionable for its rustic character.

Roehampton Village has retained something of its rustic Georgian charm, best exemplified by the King's Head Inn, at the foot of Roehampton High Street and the Montague Arms, Medfield Street, both 17th-century in origin.

Most of Montara's streets were dirt or gravel until the early 1990s ; the rustic quality of the town has not been lost since the streets were oiled or paved ( only some of the streets are actually paved ).

In the location of an original Whitin estate building-the rustic teahouse-the Gerry Gaudette pavilion has been built.

The first home was a rustic lean-to, and was later replaced by a log cabin which has since been lost to time.

As a whole, the hamlet has a wooded, rustic ambience.

Although tiny, somewhat rustic, and usually quiet, Lyle has attracted some attention because it lies very near several popular windsurfing beaches, including Doug's Beach.

The town today has rustic flavor, with a small cluster of residences and a mercantile store and restaurant along the main road through town.

This front has a doorway with distinctly rustic Ionic columns, remarkable at such a late date.

Ned has met some rustic cousins from a branch of the family that had emigrated to Vermont in America two centuries earlier.

The building has a reinforced concrete frame which is exposed internally and the external walls are of silver-grey rustic bricks.

The town has a rustic atmosphere with footbridges spanning the rivers that flow through it.

Built in the Tudor Style during the depression era, this building has been extensively modernized, but still keeps its cozy rustic charm.

The church is an attractive Gothic building in pale rustic Weldon stone, and has a hammerbeam roof.

Calico has been restored to the silver rush era it once flourished, although many original buildings were removed and replaced instead with gingerbread architecture and false facades that tourists would expect to see in a Western-themed town ; Most of the restored and newly built buildings are made of wood with a simple, rustic architecture and a severely weathered appearance.

The organic design by Mark Hoare has a rustic cruck frame on Cotswold staddle stones.

The church has a much simpler, more rustic style than the other three churches in Paraty.

It has been observed that Mr Poidimani's command of grammatical Italian is poor, and full of the constructions and flaws typical of poorly-educated Sicilians, and that he speaks with a very rustic accent, often replacing Italian words with those of his native Siracusan dialect.

However, Mallika's family has refuted this as a story created by her to give her an aura of a small town rustic girl who made it big in Bollywood.

Europeans and European Americans used to refer to Shuar as jívaros or jíbaros ; this word probably derives from the 16th century Spanish spelling of " shuar " ( see Gnerre 1973 ), but has taken other meanings including " savage " ( and Shuar consider it an insult ); outside of Ecuador, Jibaro has come to mean " rustic ".

Later, after encountering Andrew Fairservice the gardener, a rustic and loquacious Scotsman, Frank is warned by Die that he has been charged with robbery and that the local Justice of the Peace, Squire Inglewood, has a warrant for his arrest.