The smiling infant in his hand shall take 6 See a long race thy spacious courts adorn; 8 4 Isaiah, ch. Ix. ver. 1. IMITATIONS. 5 The thoughts of Isaiah, which compose the latter part of the poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above those general exclamations of Virgil, which make the loftiest parts of his Pollio. Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo -incipient magni procedere menses! Aspice, venturo lætentur ut omnia sæclo! &c. The reader needs only to turn to the passages of Isaiah here cited. 6 Ch. lx. ver. 4. 8 Ch. lx. ver. 6. 7 Ch. lx. ver. 3. See Heaven its sparkling portals wide display, No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, The seas 9 Isaiah, ch. lx. ver. 19, 20. 1 Ch. li. ver. 6, and ch. liv. ver. 10. WINDSOR FOREST. TO THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE LORD LANSDOWN. Non injussa cano: te nostræ, Vare, myricæ, Te Nemus omne canet: nec Phoebo gratior ulla est, VIRG. WINDSOR FOREST. THY forest, Windsor! and thy green retreats, The groves of Eden, vanish'd now so long, And where, though all things differ, all agree. |