1697,Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…], London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC,page208, lines231–234:
Broke by the jutting Land, on either ſide: / In double Streams the briny Waters glide. / Betwixt two rows of Rocks, aSylvan Scene / Appears above, and Groves for ever green:[…]
A little cabinet stood beside, with some of its shuttles and drawers open, displaying hawks-bells, dog-whistles, instruments for trimming a falcon's feathers, bridle-bits of various constructions, and other trifles connected withsylvan sport.
[T]he traditional memory of a rural and asylvan region, such as Warwickshire at that time was, is usually exact as well as tenacious; and, with respect to[William] Shakespeare in particular, we may presume it to have been full and circumstantial through the generation succeeding to his own, not only from the curiosity, and perhaps something of a scandalous interest, which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife, but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preëminently successful;[…]
We were now within the boundaries of Minnesota, and this prairie was yet the habitation of Wapasha (Red Leaf) and his Sioux band. I never beheld a more charmingsilvan picture than this prairie presented;[…]
The particular trees may have been cut down long ago and forgotten; but the name survives to perpetuate itssylvan history. There may be no more a wood of Limes at Lyndhurst, there may be no Oaks at Oakville, Elms at Elmley, or Ashes at Ashton; but still the names will always suggest—at least—a probability ofsylvan origin.
2002, Jeffrey K. Wilson, “Introduction”, inThe German Forest: Nature, Identity, and the Contestation of a National Symbol, 1871–1914 (German and European Studies), Toronto, Ont.:University of Toronto Press,→ISBN, page 1; republished Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press,2012,→ISBN,page 3:
Over the course of the nineteenth century, an entity known as the 'German forest' arose out of Central Europe'ssylvan diversity.
1790, Cálidás [i.e.,Kālidāsa], [William Jones, transl.],Sacontalá; or, The Fatal Ring: An Indian Drama. By Cálidás. Translated from the Original Sanscrit and Prácrit, London: Printed for Edwards,Pall Mall; by J. Cooper, No. 31,Bow Street,Covent Garden, with his new-invented ink,→OCLC, act IV,page46:
Now, mySacontalá, you are becomingly decorated: put on this lower veſt, the gift ofſylvan goddeſſes.
2011, Pat[ricia J.] Dillon, Lynne[Smith] Diebel, “Enter, Northwoods: Rhinelander Area”, inGreen Travel Guide to Northern Wisconsin: Environmentally and Socially Responsible Travel, Madison, Wis.:University of Wisconsin Press,→ISBN,page134:
Nicolet Area Technical College, a Rhinelander green centerpiece, gets high marks not just for its management of more than two hundred acres ofsylvan land and its thousand feet of frontage along the pristine shores of Lake Julia, but for being Wisconsin's college campus leader in renewable energy use.
2021 November 12, Kathy Orton, “Nature lovers house in McLean, Va., for sale for $7 million”, inWashington Post[1]:
This house in McLean, Va., has just about everything a nature lover desires: soothing sounds of the Potomac River, asylvan setting with countless species of birds and other wildlife, access to hiking, fishing and canoeing — and all within a half-hour of downtown Washington and minutes from the Beltway and George Washington Parkway.
1826,[Horace Smith], chapter III, inBrambletye House; or, Cavaliers and Roundheads. A Novel.[...] In Three Volumes, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Wells and Lilly—State Street,→OCLC,pages80–81:
[H]e hurried to a masquerade-warehouse in Westminster, where he selected the garb of asylvan, or a man of the woods, together with a guitar, which he entrusted to a porter, bidding him accompany then to St. James's Park. / "But what connexion is there between asylvan and a French song accompanied by the guitar?" asked Jocelyn, as they paced rapidly along. / "None whatever," replied his companion, "and, therefore, the better for our purpose. The King has long lost taste for that which is appropriate: to be pleased he must be surprised, and this can only be effected by some absurdity; the more preposterous the more likely to succeed."
And ſeeing it is ſo generall a report, and ſo manyauerre it eyther from their owne triall or from others, that are of indubitable honeſtie and credite, that theSyluanes and Fawnes, commonly calledIncubi, haue often iniured women, deſiring and acting carnally with them:[…]
1837,John Smith, “The Works ofNicolas Poussin”, inA Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters; in which is Included a Short Biographical Notice of the Artists, with a Copious Discussion of Their Principal Pictures; a Statement of the Prices at which such Pictures have been Sold at Public Sales on the Continent and in England; a Reference to the Galleries and Private Collections, in which a Large Portion are at Present; and the Names of the Artists by whom They have been Engraved: To which is Added, a Brief Notice of the Scholars & Imitators of the Great Masters of the above Schools, 8th part, London: Published by Smith & Son, 137,New Bond Street,→OCLC,page113:
214. A Revel and Sacrifice to Pan. The frequent repetition of these subjects shows how deeply the artist's mind was imbued with the love of sylvan rites and ceremonies, characteristic of the fabled golden age, when "In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan."[…] [N]ear to her are a nymph and a faun sitting together; the attention of the former is at the moment attracted by asylvan, who is dragging a goat by the leg;[…]
Her private orchards, walled on every side, / To lawlesssylvans all access denied. / How oft the satyrs and the wanton fawns, / Who haunt the forests, or frequent the lawns, / The god whose ensign scares the birds of prey, / And old Silenus, youthful in decay, / Employed their wiles and unavailing care / To pass the fences, and surprise the fair!
1976, Jane Krier,The English Masque: Vanished Court Drama (unpublished M.A. dissertation), Madison, Wis.:University of Wisconsin,→OCLC, page64:
Thesylvans who guarded the palace were bearded buffoons, lazy and stupid but fierce. Without the help of theSilenus, prefect of the satyrs, the cocky satyrs may have fought with thesylvans.
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