 Now the Rome of slaves hath perish'd, and the Rome of freemen holds her place, I, from out the Northern Island sunder'd once from all the human race, I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever...  The Literary World - Page 1561882Full view - About this book
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1884 - 84 pages
...English metre, he is convinced, is so truly capable of representing the "ocean roll of rhythm" of the "wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man." Hexameters, or Alexandrines, would undoubtedly make it easier to compress the sense of the Latin verse... | |
 | 1884 - 504 pages
...ground that they are faithfully Virgil's ! who has been called by the most melodious of English poets, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. He says that he has observed the same "faithfulness to Virgil" throughout his translation, and even... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1885 - 546 pages
...place, I, from out the Northern Island sunder'd once from all the human race, I salute thee, Muntovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the...stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. THE DEAD PROPHET. 182-. I. DEAD! And the Muses cried with a stormy cry " Send them no more, forevermore.... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1885 - 256 pages
...Junonis magnce, primum, prece numen adora, a line which justifies Lord Tennyson in calling Virgil, " Wielder of the stateliest measure Ever moulded by the lips of man." It is a pity, perhaps, that Mr. Morris has not given us translations of the Eclogues and the Georgics... | |
 | 1886 - 438 pages
...freedom holds her place, I, from out the Northern Island sundei' d once from all the human race, X. I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since...stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. From Tiresias, anil other Poems, by Lord Tenn).-on. BALLADE OF THE PRIMITIVE JEST. " What did the dark... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 668 pages
...Tennyson has written few poems more rolling and melodious than the memorial verses upon Virgil, the " wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man." At tin- Sinn of the Lyre (Kegan Paul) is a charming volume, containing, as Mr. Austin Dobson tells... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 662 pages
...Tennyson has written few poems more rolling and melodious than the memorial verses upon Virgil, the " wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man." At the Sign of the lyre (Kegan Paul) is a charming volume, containing, as Mr. Austin Dobson tells us,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson - 1887 - 324 pages
...freemen holds her place, I, from out the Northern Island sunder'd once from all the human race, x. I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since...stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. THE DEAD PROPHET. 182—. i. DEAD! And the Muses cried with a stormy cry "Send them no more, for evermore.... | |
 | 1888 - 592 pages
...which Virgil exercises over refined and cultivated minds. ' I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved tbee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure Ever moulded by the lips of man.' No poet ever gained a more immediate recognition or enjoyed a more unbroken ascendency than Virgil.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1889 - 894 pages
...Northern Island sunder'd once from all the human race, X. I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thce since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. THE DEAD PROPHET. 182-. DEAD! And the Muses cried with a stormy cry ' Send them no more, for evermore.... | |
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