542 
poises the scales between them, and de- 
cides—apparently with great justice—that 
Tyrwhitt made a hasty assertion, and 
Hickes an unfounded one; but that the 
whole of the shorter lines may be shewn to 
consist of combinations of trochees and 
iambies, and thus to correspond with some 
known Latin measures,—especially with 
the aid of accents for long syllables—and 
we add, not without. 
Mr. Conybeare has, however, success- 
fully established the existence of measure, 
or what is equivalent to measure, the arti- 
fices of labow—in the recurrence of rhyme 
not only at the end, but in the middle of 
lines—of lines we mean consisting of not 
more than four or five syllables; and of al- 
literation to an extent that must, beyond 
all question, be the result of design. The 
matter of alliteration occupied much of 
Conybeare’s attention; but as we turned 
over the pages, the following remark caught 
our eye— 
The Latin poetry, from the days of Ennius, exhi- 
bited merely the reflection of that of Greece: if we 
look at the few extant fragments of earlier anti- 
quity and more native growth, we indeed find shor- 
ter metres, and an approximation to the Saxon 
cadence; but alliteration is entirely wanting. 
Tf this remark be meant to apply to La- 
tin poetry, after the days of Ennius as well 
as before—the earlier fragments are so insig- 
nificant in quantity, as scarcely to warrant 
any conclusion—the remark is carelessly 
made ; to satisfy ourselves we opened a 
Virgil almost at random, in the fourth book 
of the #Eneid ; and to shew our Jearning and 
diligence we will trouble our readers with 
a few specimens : 
Mobilitate viget,, viresque acquirit eundo : 
Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, 
Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit. 
Illam terra parens, ira irritata deorum, 
(Extremam, ut perhibent),CaeoMnceladoque sororem 
Progenuit, pedibus celerem, et pernicibus alis. 
Monstrum horrendum, ingens: cui quot sunt corpore 
plume, 
Tot vigiles ocuZi subter, mirabile dictu, 
Tot lingua, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures. 
Nocte volat ce/imedio, terreque per umbram 
Stridens, nec dulci declinat lumina somno. 
Luce sedet custos, aut summi culmine tecti, 
Turribus aut altis, et magnas ¢erritat urbes 
Tam ficti pravique fenax, quam nuntior veri 
Hee tum multiplici populos sermone replebat 
Gaudens et pariter facta atque infecta canebat: 
&e. &e. 
In some of these lines the alliterative 
letter begins the word, in others the first 
syllable of the foot on which the emphasis 
necessarily fell ; in all the artifice is percep- 
tible, and the recurrence too constant—the 
above lines are conseeutive ones—to be the 
result of accident. 
But not to forget Mr. Conybeare’s book ; 
the reader will find a list, furnished by his 
brother, the Rey. W. D. Conybeare, Rec- 
tor of Sully, and no doubt a very correct 
one, of all the existing pieces of Saxon 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
[Nov. 
poetry; to the most remarkable of which 
the ‘illustrations’ refer: ‘Mr. ‘Conybeare 
was himself a man of great Jabour and cool 
judgment; and his mantle, none’ of the most 
brilliant or enviable texttire, has fallen upon 
his brother, a person evidently of the same 
pursuits, and with the saine qualifications, — 
and will not be worn unworthily or in vain 
—he threatens more illustrations. 
The History of the Church of Christ, by 
Jolin Scott, M.A.; Vicar of North Ferriby, 
and Minister of St. Mary's, Hull’; 1826.— 
Most readers of church history, to whatever 
party they belong or incline, are acquainted 
more or less with the productions of the 
Milners. On the death of the elder Mil- 
ner, the broken thread of his history was 
taken up by the brother, the Dean of Car- 
lisle, and by fis death was snapped again 
before it reached the Confession of Augs- 
burgh. The last volume was published in 
1809, though the Dean lived, we believe, 
till 1820. It was understood he had left 
valuable collections for the continuance, 
and for a long while some further publica- 
tion was expected: none, however, appear- 
ed. The admirers of the Milners were 
anxious to find a fitting successor, and in 
Mr. Seott, a son of the well-known com- 
mentator Scott, such an one has been found 
—a man who has trodden in the steps of the 
Milners, in tenets and studies; and, what 
probably helped to suggest the present under- 
taking, has occupied successively the seye- 
ral clerical appointments’ of ‘the elder’ bro- 
ther, and is now actually minister of St. 
Mary’s, Hull. The burden’ was) at ‘first 
forced upon him: but he has become recon- 
ciled to the weight of it, and now bears it 
blithely and willingly.” The present’ portly 
octavo of 600 pages is the first-fruits of his 
labours, and advances'the story full sixteen 
years, from the diet and confession of Augs- 
burgh to the death of Luther, 1546. “His 
intention is to follow it up immediately with 
the events of the Smalealdic war to the es- 
tablishment of Lutheranism in Germany, in 
1755; and then to pursue the same course 
with the Swiss refermation, and the reform- 
ed churches to which it gave birth; and, 
finally, the origin and progress of the re- 
formation and protestant institutions of 
Great Britain. 
But this is all—to use an expression often adopted 
by Melancthon;—ev yevac; @ev—at the disposal of 
providence; and the fate of the illustrious men, 
whose interrupted work I take up, and aspire to con- 
tinue—however much it may be—non pussibus equis 
—admonishes me, ‘ not to boast myself of to-mor- 
tow,” but to say, “if the Lord will, T'shall live, 
and do this and that.” ant 
ri G uf sho i 
Of course, who expects him tocdo\any 
thing without 2. What prompts these 'cus+ 
tomaries? piety or ‘puevility ?certainly 
neither good taste, nor ‘a ‘vigilant’ guard 
against the blunting effects~ of worn "exe 
pressions. py 
Mr. Scott largely partakes of the réve- 
