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

...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...

...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,"...

...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,"...

...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,...

...and Days,' All the chosen coin of fancy flashing out from many a golden phrase; III Thou that singest han tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings...sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool m iu a lonely word; Poet of the happy Tityrns piping underneath his beechen bowers; Poet of the poet-satyr...

...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...

...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...

...blissful years again to be. Summers of the snakeless nu'iidow, uiilaboriouslfartiraiid oarlesa sea; VI Thou that seest Universal Nature moved by Universal Mind; Thou majestic in thy sadriSSS at the doubtful doom of human kind.; VII Light among the vanish'd ages ; star that gildest...