...entire gamut from Professor Leonard's dedicatory elegiac, inspired by and worthy the inspiration of the "wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man," and President Birge's introductory note, candidly avowing and demonstrating that his "department of...

...can be produced in a hundred years. We must remember how long Italy waited before Virgil came, that " wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man " ; how long she waited for Dante ; how long England waited for Shakespeare, and still waits for another...

...freemen holds her place, l, 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, \Viclder of the stateliest measure HYMN. [From Akbat'i Dream.] I. Once again thou flamest heavenward,...

...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...stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. TENNYSON. terraeque aratrum iam requiem dabit laboriosae : nec sine te patet diffusa per molem nec...

...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. Tennyson. *xx. So saying, with delight he snuffed the smell Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock...

...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. MILTON Alcaics O MIGHTY-MOUTH'D inventor of harmonies, O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted...

...freemen holds her place, 35 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, Wielder of the stateliest measure 40 ever moulded by the lips of man. II. Hesiod wrote "Works and Days." "many a golden phrase." Some...

...ill') they Who here entangled in the gathering ice Take their last look of the descending sun. CLXXIII. I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began. CLXXIV. But azure chasms of calm Stretch o'er this isle, or spring descends in dew. CLXXV. His heart...

...sunder'd once from all the human race, I salute thee, Mantavano, I that loved thee since my day hegan, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. ( "T"'HAT Virgil should be the most translated 1 and the most untranslatable...

...Vergil finds frequent expres-sion in his poetry ; never was a more beautiful tribute paid to the " wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man," than in the following sonnet: — Aa when above the heated fields the moon Hovers to spread its veil...