Conventional diction, pastorals, and twaddle about Nature belonged to the nonsensical side.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
62, 63 Browne, William, his pastorals, v.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
The bishops protested, speaking in letters and pastorals 'of the persecutions of the poor Church, robbed of its goods, outraged in its ministers, and attacked in its immunities,' but the awakened country rejoiced in the only prosperous days it had known in modern times before the disestablishment.
"The Shadow of the Cathedral"
Vicente Blasco Ibañez