 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
 | Virgil - 1900 - 808 pages
...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, WieMer of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. INTRODUCTION A. THE NEW EMPIRE 1.... | |
 | Robert Forman Horton - 1900 - 358 pages
...autobiographical in another sense ; his passionate admiration of the Roman poet, even from his earliest days, as Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man, explains the principle and power of his own prosody. He learnt from Virgil the music of words, and... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1900 - 312 pages
...What can be more beautiful than his own lines to Virgil, written in a charming metre of his own: " Wielder of the stateliest measure Ever moulded by the lips of man." Of English hexameters for serious work he had no opinion. Walking along the terrace of Aidworth with... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1900 - 310 pages
...What can be more beautiful than his own lines to Virgil, written in a charming metre of his own: " Wielder of the stateliest measure Ever moulded by the lips of man." Of English hexameters for serious work he had no opinion. Walking along the terrace of Aidworth with... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1900 - 312 pages
...What can be more beautiful than his own lines to Virgil, written in a charming metre of his own: " Wielder of the stateliest measure Ever moulded by the lips of man." Of English hexameters for serious work he had no opinion. Walking along the terrace of Aidworth with... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1901 - 25 pages
...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...stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man.' I have wished to speak broadly of Tennyson, leaving out lesser counts on either side of the reckoning.... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1901 - 252 pages
...Virgil were written at the request of the Mantuans, by the most Virgilian of all the successors of the "Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man." Never was Tennyson more Virgilian than in this unmatched panegyric, the sum and flower of criticism... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 648 pages
...Glasgow : MacLehose, 1900. 7. Tennyson: a Critical Study. By Stephen Gwynn. Edinburgh : Blackie, 1899. ' I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began.' FEW books have had a longer or more living influence than the ' Parallel Lives ' of Plutarch. Its shining... | |
 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - 1902 - 470 pages
..., I, from out the Northern Island sunder"d once from all the human race, I salute thee, Montovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the...stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. — Alfred Tennyson. September 22. NATHAN HALE. An American Revoluntionary patriot. Sent by General... | |
 | Virgil - 1902 - 554 pages
...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 AENEIDOS LIBER PRIMUS RMA virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italian! fato profugus Layinaque... | |
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