 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
 | 1904 - 696 pages
...freemen holds her place, I, from out the Northern Island sundered 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. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYAM THESE pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904 - 394 pages
...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. THE DEAD PROPHET 182I DEAD ! And the Muses cried with a stormy cry, ' Send them no more, for evermore.... | |
 | Virgil - 1904 - 524 pages
...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, Wielder of the stateliest measure THE READING OF LATIN POETRY. § 1. GENERAL CHARACTER or LATIN POETRY. English poetry, as a rule, is... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1904 - 408 pages
...speech, to verify another word of noble courtesy from the English Laureate, when he hails Virgil as : " Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man." In this among other ways Virgil is un-epic, that we constantly need the story of his own life to understand... | |
 | Edward Manson - 1904 - 538 pages
...found expression in his translation of the " j^Eneid," and in Virgil, the ambition of all scholars— Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man— he had a subject well fitted to set off to the best advantage his special gifts. Unfortunately he chose... | |
 | Virgil - 1905 - 524 pages
...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. THE READING OF LATIN POETRY. § 1. GENERAL CHARACTER OF LATIN POETRY. English poetry, as a rule, is... | |
 | Herbert Macartney Beatty - 1905 - 122 pages
...of the Mincio to the Capitol, from the Capitol to Olympus " ; while to the English Tennyson he is: Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. (To Virgil); and to the English Myers, he is the discoverer of the " hidden music, which can give to... | |
 | Herbert Macartney Beatty - 1905 - 122 pages
...of the Mincio to the Capitol, from the Capitol to Olympus " ; while to the English Tennyson he is: Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. (To Virgil); and to the English Myers, he is the discoverer of the " hidden music, which can give to... | |
 | Leon Kellner, Gustav Krüger - 1906 - 502 pages
...call'd the Bringcr home of all good things; -- 571 a To Virgil V 1: chanter of the Pollio; ib. X 2: wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man; -- 576a, Freedom VIII 3, wird die Freiheit als „loatlier of the lawless crown" apostrophiert; —... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 376 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. VASTNESS. L MANY a hearth upon our dark globe sighs after many a vanish'd face, Many a planet by many... | |
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