...that sang the Works and Days, All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase; m. Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard,...and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses Iv. Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers; Poet of the poet-satyr whom the...

...schop; an exact picture. What he has written of Virgil's art is equally true of his own, which offers us All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. This power of fitting the word to the thought may be seen in the following examples: "creamy spray";...

...Virgil he sang of "All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase," and again of " All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." Let us here consider a few of those golden phrases.3 Macaulay thought the finest passage in Virgil...

...language more than he that sang the "Works and Days," All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase; Thou that singest wheat and woodland,...happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers ; Poet of the poet-satyr whom the laughing shepherd bound with flowers; Chanter of the Pollio, glorying...

...Death." 189l] VIRGIL AND "THE CUP." 385 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 vi. as an instance. " In Dryden's time,"...

...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,...

...had 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 vi. as an instance. " In Dryden's time,"...

...all her works to each that lives," that mysterious suggestion of infinitely moving associations — "all the charm of all the muses often flowering in a lonely word" — of which Virgil, too, in so many respects his prototype, possessed the secret. Yes ; Maga was in...

...Death." 1881 ] VIRGIL AND "THE CUP." 385 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 vi. as an instance. " In Dryden's time,"...

...sang the ' Works and Days,' All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase; III Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard,...happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers; Poet of the poet-satyr whom the laughing shepherd bound with flowers; Chanter of the Pollio, glorying...