"Virgilian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... doubting still What mystery lurks beyond the seen, Yet blithe and reassured before That fine unvexed Virgilian mien; ...
— More Songs From Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey
... compared to the swallow, not merely as winding and turning swiftly in her chariot, but as being a water-nymph by birth,—"Stagnis quae, fluminibusque sonoris, praesidet." How many different creatures in one the swallow is by birth, as a Virgilian simile is many thoughts in one, it would take many more lectures than one to show you clearly; but I will indicate them with such ...
— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin
... futurity from the flight, and various other actions of birds; the Aruspices, from the entrails of beasts; palmestry or the lines of the hands; points marked at random; numbers, names, the motions of a scene, the air, fire, the Praenestine, Homerian, and Virgilian lots, dreams, etc. ...
— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian
... he felt a sharp pang as he remembered that the flower of flowers, the queen of the lilies, had been mowed down by the scythe, and the city which to him had heretofore been an altar was now a tomb. The lovely Virgilian dirge, ...
— Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches • Maurice Baring
... was what he continued to be through life, a firm, though a moderate Whig. He had addressed the most polished and vigorous of his early English lines to Somers, and had dedicated to Montague a Latin poem, truly Virgilian, both in style and rhythm, on the peace of Ryswick. The wish of the young poet's great friends was, it should seem, to employ him in the service of the Crown abroad. But an intimate knowledge of the French language was a qualification indispensable to a diplomatist; and this ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay |
