“Poetry in the Virgilian, Tennysonian, or Lowellian sense it certainly is not.”

“It must be admitted, however, that the poet's uncouth diction is anything but Virgilian.”

“In his version of the rich Virgilian measure they are especially out of place.”

“But I stand by my preference, not least because Renly and Loras' plot has a good classical, specifically Vergilian, pedigree.”

“Nor is it for nothing that the fashion of Vergilian quotation so long dominated our parliamentary eloquence.”

“And it suddenly impressed me as something poignant, as something with the Vergilian touch of tears in it.”