...sang the ' Works and Days,' All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase ; In Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard,...of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word ; IV Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers ; Poet of the poet-satyr whom the...

...that sang the Works and Days, All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase; in. Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard,...of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word ; 37 IV. Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers; Poet of the poet-satyr whom...

...rare music of his Ode to Virgil, from which may be quoted two lines applicable not unfitly to himself, Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard,...of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. And it is present in full measure even in the last poem of all — the Silent Voices, which he dictated...

...that sang the Works and Days, All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase ; in Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard,...of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word ; . . iv Poet of the happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers ; Poet of the poet-satyr •whom...

...120 An allusion to a famous passage in the Georgia on the subject of bees. Cf. Tennyson, To Virgil: Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd. 128 121 Lucretius: a Latin poet; he lived in the first half of the first century BC His chief work...

..." — one of numberless instances in which his own exquisite criticism may be applied to himself : All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word. Again, if it is superfluous to quote any of the lyrics of The Princess, we may illustrate the delicate...

...— the delight of battle " Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy." No translation can reproduce " All the charm of all the muses often flowering in a lonely word," which you find in the pages of VirgiL We live in an age of examinations. Some of us find them a weariness...

...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,...of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word ; 1 Some have thought that Virgil meant to introduce a number of halfverses into the Aeneid. But it...

...electric button; do they really surpass the wonders evoked by the sight of a tiny group of letters — " All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word." But some verbal stickler—are they ever real word-lovers ? — may ask what I meant by saying that...

...chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase ; VOL. XH.-No. «7. Y III. Thou that singcst wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse...happy Tityrus piping underneath his beechen bowers ; Poet of the poet-satyr whom the laughing shepherd bound with flowers ; V. Chanter of the Pollio,...