...his heart. This very word, infelix, was perhaps one of those that Tennyson had in mind when he wrote: All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. An epithet used only sixty-seven times in Virgil's works (including the Ciris and Lydia), infelix,...

...lofty temples robed in fire, Ilion falling, Rome arising, wars, and filial faith, and Dido's pyre; n Landscape-lover, lord of language more than he that...coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase; III Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm...

...cannot go to Aristotle for instruction about what we feel but cannot define in the magic of Virgil — ' All the charm of all the Muses Often flowering in a lonely word,' or in phrases of Shakespeare or Keats, Tennyson or Sappho or Coleridge. Of course he would clearly...

...surpassed even in "Lycidas." This, for example, which I see people are beginning to use as a quotation : "All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." Still more choice, perhaps, is this : "Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless...

...he, as the late Poet Laureate sang, a ' Lord of Language ' in whose marvellous verse-pictures we find All the charm of all the M-uses Often flower-ing in a lonely word. And haply must I sing Of Autumn stars and Autumn's fitful mood, And what our husbandmen must watch...

...surpassed even in "Lycidas." This, for example, which I see people are beginning to use as a quotation : "All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." Still more choice, perhaps, is this : "Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless...

...lofty temples robed in firt, Ilion falling, Rome arising, wars, and filial faith, and Dido « pyre n Landscape-lover, lord of language more than he that...the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a goMn phrase; in Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd ;...

...wars, and filial faith, and Did pyre. n Landscape-lover, lord of language more than he that sang tt: 'Works and Days,' All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a goWei phrase . 642 643 HI jest wheat and woodneyard, hive and horse if all the Muses ring in a lonely...

...forget how " all the chosen coin of fancy " is often to be found flashing out from the epithet ! " All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." I dare not allow myself to quote instances ; but I strongly advise the teacher to record such when...

...evidently studied Virgil's verse." Warren mentioned the " lonely word " in the " Ode to Virgil " : All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. " Yes," my father said, and quoted " cunctantem ramum " in Book v1. as an instance. " In 1 He was working...