...peace : her land reposed : A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as mother, wife, and queen. 13. I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since...stateliest measure Ever moulded by the lips of man. 14. He thought to quell the stubborn hearts of oak, Madman ! — to chain with chains and bind with...

...Virgil, if he cannot be translated into hexameters, can be translated at all. Take away from the ' Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man ' the metre in which the whole of his works, with a few doubtful or trifling exceptions, are clothed,...

...god, and Ennius twined the silver thread of quantity with the native gold of tone. The bard of Mantua, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man, crowned her with a deathless wreath of song, blending the stirring drum-beat of the tripudium with...

...it, if you will, but such risk as only the consummate masters of language know how to take and use : "I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since...stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man." Just so would Virgil, if called on to celebrate a Greek poet, have delighted to play with some rarely...

...of 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 my day began, WieWer of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. No! THE DEAD PROPHET 182Not referring...

...if you will, but such risk as only the consummate masters of language know how to take and use : " I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since...stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man." Just so would Virgil, if called on to celebrate a Greek poet, have delighted to play with some rarely...

...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 measiire ever moulded by the lips of man. TENNYSON. tu, qui cernis uti cunctas res spiritus idem intus...

...there is no doubt as to where the greater greatness lies. That imperial style compassed by Virgil— Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man— was not to be attained in a modern tongue by any, save perhaps by Milton. In range of thought, in single...

...there is no doubt as to where the greater greatness lies. That imperial style compassed by Virgil — Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man — was not to be attained in a modern tongue by any, save perhaps by Milton. In range of thought,...

...enshrines what the happy fanatic of Virgil rejoices to have said for him. " I that loved thee," he cries, " since my day began Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. " Stateliest measure " says, it seems, too much, and I so does " ocean-roll of rhythm." Virgil's verse...