...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...

...exemplified than in the line which at once praises Virgil for this particular gift and illustrates it: All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. Yet, like Virgil, he seldom parades his graces; he seldom deviates into extravagance. Exception must...

...exemplified than in the line which at once praises Virgil for this particular gift and illustrates it: All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. Yet, like Virgil, he seldom parades his graces; he seldom deviates into extravagance. Exception must...

...lofty temples robed in fire, tlion falling, Rome arising, wars, and filial faith, and Dido's pyre; Landscape-lover, lord of language more than he that...of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word ; IT. Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers ; Poet of the poet-satyr whom...

...even his twofold relation to humanity, are expressed with a beauty and truth the critics might envy. All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word fully enshrines what the happy fanatic of Virgil rejoices to have said for him. " I that loved thee,"...

...poem. The other special merits of Vergil — his mastery of language and meter, his power of minting All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase, the majestic ' ocean-roll ' of his rhythm, are finely set forth by Tennyson, his profound admirer and...

...in the second line : " the bright death " is a marvellous Virgilian picture of the flashing knife (" all the charm of all the muses often flowering in a lonely word "), and the last line becomes a flawless description of the passing of consciousness. And in this labour...

...critical faculty are shown in his preferring Virgil to Hesiod, but not to Theocritus nor to Homer. Landscape-lover, lord of language, More than he that sang the Works and Days. Nothing of the same kind is said about the Iliad or the Odyssey, or those wonderful idylls which, unlike...

...may make a straight furrow." " One afternoon he had a long waltz with M in the ballroom." Speaking of "All the charm of all the Muses Often flowering in a lonely word" in Virgil, he adduced, rather strangely, the cunctantem ramum, said of the Golden Bough, in the Sixth...

...make a straight furrow." " One afternoon he had a long waltz with M in the ballroom." Speaking of "AH the charm of all the Muses Often flowering in a lonely word" in Virgil, he adduced, rather strangely, the atnctantem ramum, said of the Golden Bough, in the Sixth...