The islanders might well be dismayed at the prospect of a seclusion which promised to recall the Virgilian line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)] Reference

I did not tell him, it was not in the Virgilian style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference

It is the Virgilian pastoral with a snake in the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [V For Venn Diagram] Reference

Virgilian age, saw man and nature in the mirror of Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Ovid's line 26 are in lines 76 and 77 of the Virgilian passage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

I can expect quite a free hand in the Virgilian System henceforward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Their Return]

Virgilian wood, where he and Marsa had dreamed away many happy hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Neville Rogers, op. cit., p. 16, discusses the Virgilian echo in the phrase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology] Reference

Virgilian theory of small farms, and to the better theory of thorough tillage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

Hereby may you perceive your dreams to be in every jot conform and agreeable to the Virgilian lots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

How Pantagruel doth explore by the Virgilian lottery what fortune Panurge shall have in his marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

Perhaps his planetographic researches in the Virgilian System had not satisfied every inborn impulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rebel Worlds]

You'd left the Virgilian System, but one of your lovely barbarian auxiliaries attacked and wrecked us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rebel Worlds]

I hope to proceed firmly but humanely with the reintegration of the Virgilian system into Imperial life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Their Return]

Interplanetary radio silence persisted, for Josipist ships had raided the Virgilian System more than once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rebel Worlds]

I have also read Professor Alpers's book on Spenser and, a few weeks ago, his new book on Virgilian pastoral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deconstruction: An Exchange] Reference

It is likely that Calliope, usually represented by a trumpet, is signified by the Virgilian verses on the lectern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

The Virgilian Fame was not a mechanical, but a living thing; it grew as it ran; it at least gave a poetical impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference

SORTES VIRGILIANAE, Virgilian lots; opening the works of Virgil at random and taking the first passage read for counsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redgauntlet] Reference

"Here are the tears of things, and the facts of mortality touch our minds": The famous line distills Virgilian sorrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epic Undertaking] Reference

My Ántonia is a novel that aspires to the Virgilian ambition to be “the first . . . to bring the Muse into my country.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The meaning of patriotism] Reference

Virgilian; and the proud station and posture, and the godlike annihilating menace of that "DESUPER" is equally picturesque and sublime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

Milton was incapable of the Homeric or Virgilian blemish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference

Even Virgilian quotation has seldom been put to nobler use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Johnson and His Circle] Reference

Dante himself, dreaming over the high Virgilian Prophecy of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference

Either the sonnet or the Virgilian note must be a falsification.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference

The Virgilian line our orator introduced so felicitously is omitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Duke] Reference

JAMES HENRY, the Virgilian, who in turn had nothing whatever to do with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920] Reference

To the Virgilian student, every sentence here is full of reminiscences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latin Literature] Reference

But James had nothing but cold water and Virgilian quotations for his son's ardour.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Montague a Latin poem, truly Virgilian, both in style and rhythm, on the peace of Ryswick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

We care nothing about the ancients on Highgate Hill -- but at Baiae, Pompeii, by the Virgilian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference

Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead-friends, neighbors, family-that is yet wholly and movingly vernacular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors textbooks and reviews] Reference

The king with a fleet is between Normandy and England, when a midnight storm of super-Virgilian boisterousness burst upon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference