About this book Read this bookThe British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review By John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone

The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
By John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone
Published 1812
Printed for C. & J
. Rivington
v.40 1812 Jul-Dec



 About this book Read this bookThe British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review By John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone: "The important difcovery then if this The fourth Eclogue of Virgil the finefl of hii fimller work is written IN CELEBRATION OF AUGUSTUS Whom was Virgil fo likely to celebrate in the moft exalted and en thufiaflic flyle of encomium Certainly no ene How then has this difcovery been made As all difcoverits are made by the plained and mon natural procefs By obierving in what terms Virgil m ikes the fame Sibyll whom he here in troducex celebrate Auguilus in another part of his works where he points him out in thefe remarkable terms Hie vir hie eft tibi quern promitti fzpius audis AUGUSTUS C ÏSAR Divum genus áurea condet Szcula qui rurfus Latió regnata per arva Saturno quondam JEatiJ VI v 79 "


 About this book Read this bookThe British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review By John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone: "Indeed and what is the perfon predifled in the fourth Eclogue to do Exaftly the fame To bring back the golden age to Italy and to rule the world in peace But how can this be applied to Anguflus in the fourth Eclogue entitled POLLIO fince he was nineteen years of age in the confulOiip of Pollio to which the poem refers P By another flep almofl as clear and imple by making the whole eclogue excepting the four introductory lines the fuppofed prophecy of the Cumaean Sibyl which Sibyl as we have jud feen defcribes Auguflus almoit in the fame words in the bit id Thus is every difficulty removed as to the peí fon except that material one why was the Confulfhip of Pollio fo particularly worthy of celebration with reference to Auguilus or as he was then Oftavius To this the anfwer of Mr Penn is as complete and fatisf i tory as poflîble Becaufe during that Confullhip O lavius made with Antony the РКЛСК OF BRUNDUSIUM by which he was formally eilahlilhcd as Lord of all the Weilern woi Ы and confequently commenced his Saturnien reign in Italy Such is in the molt"


Which by removing all obfcurity from one of the fined poems extant enables us and all who hall hereafter read it to enjoy its beauty with tenfold iatisfaclion That the notion u ftriflly corren we have Iwrdlv the Ihadow of doubt That Virgil who celebrated Augullue fo nobly in the opening of his third Géorgie who made mm in a man ner the hero of his E ieid ihould alfo dedicate fame encomium to him in his Bucolics is of the higheft probability and th it he bas done fo in the moft admirable manner will in future be clear when the opinion here pvopofed hall be as it deferves  About this book Read this bookThe British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review By John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone



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