...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 moulded by the lips of man.' I have wished to speak broadly of Tennyson, leaving out lesser counts on either side of the reckoning....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...