Pressured by financial sponsors, he began to produce sentimental theme portraits pertaining to the bucolic life of country folk.

However, he has a great deal of affection for the slaves on his plantation, and the role that they played in his serene, bucolic life.

These include a leafy branch, which can be a symbol of a bucolic life.

As though the charms of bucolic life had any meaning for-Good heavens!

Still, they are both occasionally struck by the surreal quality of the writer's ostensibly bucolic life in the East End.

A bucolic life makes one sluggish and reluctant of foot when he goes out on the king's service.

(Now she is 61, and has left the bucolic life for Edinburgh.)

He finds happiness in marriage and a rural, bucolic life, away from the corruptions of the city.

The family's bucolic life at Olana was forever changed in March, 1865, with the deaths of the children from diphtheria.

In the intervening years we have become content, settling down into the routine of a bucolic life.