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Yet Horace, Catullus, Ovid, and generally the other great writers of the Virgilian age, saw man and nature in the mirror of Greece. The institutions also, and the religion of Rome were less poetical than those of Greece, as the shadow is less vivid than the substance. Hence poetry in Rome, seemed to follow, rather than accompany, the perfection of political and domestic society.
"By token of your Virgilian diversions shall I assume that you are a collegian, really or almost?" "Just almost. I'm on my way to Wellesley now." "Ah!" and his exclamation was heavy with meaning. A girl bound for college became immediately an integer with which a young man who had not yet mislaid his diploma could reckon. "I have usually been a supporter of Vassar.
Truly, the Laureate remains the most various, the sweetest, the most exquisite, the most learned, the most Virgilian of all English poets, and we may pity the lovers of poetry who died before Tennyson came. Here may end the desultory tale of a desultory bookish boyhood. It was not in nature that one should not begin to rhyme for one's self.
Famine and Fear crouch by the portals of literature as they crouch at the gates of the Virgilian Hades.
Wherever Egyptian, or indeed Grecian colonies migrated, nothing was more natural than that, where they found a coincidence of scene, they should establish a coincidence of name. In Epirus were also the Acheron and Cocytus; and Campania contains the whole topography of the Virgilian Hades. See sect. xxi., p. 77.
All had relied however on the powerful assistance of the great defender of the Protestant faith, the father-in-law of the Elector, the King of Great Britain. But James had nothing but cold water and Virgilian quotations for his son's ardour. He was more under the influence of Gondemar than ever before, more eagerly hankering for the Infanta, more completely the slave of Spain.
Here the Virgilian and Dantesque schemes are reversed: Pluto's dread domain, the horrible Inferno, lies above; deep down below are the Fields of the Blest and the celestial Paradise. Dazzlingly bright the verdure, fertile and sunny the valleys we now leave behind arid and desolate beyond the power of words to express the tableland reached so laboriously.
"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 of that "Golden branch amid the shadows, kings and realms that pass to rise no more." Hardly less admirable is the tribute to Catullus, and the old poet is young again in the bird-song of Early Spring.
But recollecting that the Virgilian part of his education might have been neglected, I interpreted so far as to say, that perhaps at that moment the flames were catching hold of our worthy brother and next-door neighbor Ucalegon.
They were opposed by the Virgilian predilections of Pulci's friend, Politian, who had nevertheless universality enough to sympathise with the delight the other took in their native Tuscan, and its liveliest and most idiomatic effusions.
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