 | 1883 - 498 pages
...fullest ripeness of his power : — " I salute thee, Mantovano ; I, that loved thee since my days began ; Wielder of the stateliest measure Ever moulded by the lips of man." We say no more lest, as Tennyson says in " The Sisters," " The critic's blurring comment make The veriest... | |
 | American periodicals - 1925 - 778 pages
...two of Tennyson's finest lines: — I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. THE HOP! SNAKE-DANCE BY DH LAWRENCE THE HOP: country is in Arizona, next the Navaho country, and some... | |
 | Scotland - 1865 - 838 pages
...once from all the human race, I salute [hee, mighty Mantuan, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man." WE ARE CHANGED ! WE feel our love has long grown cold, And yet we dare not own That, day by day, a... | |
 | Books - 1882 - 462 pages
...Virgil's death. The last stanza in— " I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure, Ever moulded by the lips of man." Mr. Wilfrid S. Blunt writes an account of "The Egyptian Revolution," giving what he calls "a Personal... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1882 - 1050 pages
...'d once from all the human race, x. I falute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE. IT is so unusual a position for an Englishman, one still... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1883 - 740 pages
...sundered 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. •vf Te renew the 1harge, book must be brought to the desk. TWO WEEK BOOK DO NOT RETURN BOOKS ON SUNDAY... | |
 | Books - 1884 - 504 pages
...ground that they are faithfully Virgil's ! who has been called by the most melodious of English poets, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. He says that he has observed the same "faithfulness to Virgil" throughout his translation, and even "adopts... | |
 | Classical philology - 1884 - 850 pages
...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. Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie und Pädagogik. 12У. und 130. Band. 1. Heft. Leipzig 1884. Erste... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1884 - 84 pages
...English metre, he is convinced, is so truly capable of representing the "ocean roll of rhythm" of the "wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man." Hexameters, or Alexandrines, would undoubtedly make it easier to compress the sense of the Latin verse... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - English poetry - 1885 - 256 pages
...Junonis magnce, primum, prece numen adora, a line which justifies Lord Tennyson in calling Virgil, " Wielder of the stateliest measure Ever moulded by the lips of man." It is a pity, perhaps, that Mr. Morris has not given us translations of the Eclogues and the Georgics... | |
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I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. 
