The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-28 00:00:00

LITERARY REVIEW.

The ;ENE'S Of VIRGIL. Translated by CHARLES SYMMONS,
D.D. of Jesus College, Oxford.-4to.

Vette sidentur, .et in inediis conatibus ere
Suceidimas, non LinKua 17alet.

As we have reason to think that our preceding
extracts from the Notes attached to this interesting
«•orb, of Dr. SYMMONS have been gratifying to
our Readers, we shall continue to present them
with the spoils of the Doctor's page. The sub-
ject •of our present selection will be short but it
is recommended to .us by its reference to the Muse
of Yoga : a, Muse whose beauty shall flourish and
be admires!, when the spurious Muses of the pre-
sent day, together with the illegitimate criticism
which has supported them, shall be Winkered and
forgotten.

Book 4th, 1. 591 :
" Itiow.all-subdued and by her fates,appalt'd,
Anxious, on death unhappy MIR),
" Every Reader of taste must be powerfully.
affected Ity.itlrfe solemn melancholy, or rather by
the sublime hOrror,which is thrown over the whole.
passage, from v. 450 to v. 473, its theoriginal.--7
The portents, the dreadful omens, the ghostly
voice in the temple, the predictions Of ancient
prophets, the disturbed and miserable dreams of
the devoted Queen, are as nobly imagined as they
are energetically expressed. The companion Of
this victim of -love, in the state to which she Was
reduced by such a fearful combination of circum-
stances, to PENTHEUS and OttEsTes, as they were
represented on the, Theatre in the paroxysm of
their distraction, is. certainly very fine. I cannot
approve of the proposed substitution of fags for
scenis, in v. 471, as, its my opinion, it wank
weaken the idea, :Ina Just correspond with the
intention of the Poet, whose object was to im-
press us with the most forcible image. of the
Queen's distraction, not by comparing_it with the
real madness of PENTHEUS and ORESTES, but with
the phrenzy of these unhappy men, as it was
heightened and made mote terrible by the genius
of the dramatist. Front the
Hint craudiri votes et verba voraalis
• Visa virt7
Of VIRGIL, POPE is supposed to have derived the
thought which he has so admirably expressed in
these lines of his ELoISA
' In each low wind methinks a Spirit
And more'than echoes talk atong the walls.
here, as I watch'd the dying lamps around,
From yonder shrine I heard a hollow sound
" Come, Sister, come," it said, or seened to say,
Thy place is here: sad Sister! conic awily!
• • • s'
ff
I COMM.!' 1 copse &c.
:But POP,E,, in,this instance, seems-to have bor-
rowed:immediately, not front VIRGIL, but from
; by, whom the terrific
grandeur of Isis, original has been lowered and
flattened by expansion. The lines in question
are its the Epistkftom DIDOtO ZENEAS :-.-
4.llinc ego MC Sen.ii ;tot° quatcr ore tit ari:
Ipso son° tendi dish Elisso.! venir
• Z',aila morn cst.: venio ! veld() tits deldta conjax
Sans tamen adinissi tarda pudore
Another couplet in this epistle has suggested some
of the fondnessesof!tbe impassioned•kkotsa :-
4 Si,p;ql(l,lftror;:s, ;ton nuitta sed hospita dicar.
13tan Ina tit Didq, quidlibet es.se fee, I.'
From..another part of this exquisite effusion of
Vsit,:ns.'s FOCIfy,
Ssuiperque relinqui
-Sofa:.temper lottgam incornitata videtur
ire viam, et 7yrios deserta yncrrere terra,'
,Porg Seellls,Riso to have.bnyrowe4the idea ov. lore
I.llLotlA Outs; speaks of. her
'Alas! no more :-...niethinks.wc wand'ring go *
Throngh dreary wastes, and weep.rach other's woe :
Whet* round some mould'ring tower pale ivy creeps.;
And lowAtruw.d rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.'"

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