Note 54 — MESSIAH,
Reading edition
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 —toto surget gens aurea mundo! —incipient magni procedere menses! Aspice, venture lætentur ut omnia sæclo! &c.
The reader needs only to turn to the passages of Isaiah, here cited.—Pope.