[29] Yet Johnson knew him well. The peculiarity of Juvenal, he says (vol. ix., p. 424), "is a mixture of gayety and stateliness, of pointed sentences, and declamatory grandeur." A good idea of it may be formed from his own beautiful imitation of the third Satire. His imitation of the tenth (still more beautiful as a poem) has scarcely a trait of the author's manner--that is to say, of that "mixture of gayety and stateliness," which, according to his own definition, constitutes the "peculiarity of Juvenal." "The Vanity of Human Wishes" is uniformly stately and severe, and without those light and popular strokes of sarcasm which abound so much in his "London." [30] In the fourteenth Satire, for example, there is an omission of fifteen lines, and this, too, in a passage of singular importance. [31] Sub-Dean and Prebendary of Westminster, and Vicar of Croydon, in Surrey. [32] The architect of Eton Hall, Cheshire, a structure which even now stands pre-eminent among the works which embellish the nation, and which future times will contemplate with equal wonder and delight. CHRONOLOGY OF JUVENAL, PERSIUS, AND SULPICIA. A.D. 14-138. |OL.|A.D.|A.U.C.|X | | | | | | 14| 767|Death of Augustus, August 19th. | | | | | | | |Accession of Tiberius, anno ætat. 55. | | | | | | 16| 769|Rise of Sejanus. Cf. A.D. 31. Tac. Ann. vi. 8. | | | | | | 18| 771|Death of Ovid and Livy. Strabo still writing. | | | | | | 19| 772|Death of Germanicus. Jews banished from Italy (alluded | | | |to, Sat. iii. 14; vi. 543). | | | | |200| 21| 774|Tiberius, on the plea of ill health, goes in the spring | | | |into Campania. | | | | | | 23| 776|Influence of Sejanus. Cf. Tac. Ann. iv. 6. | | | | | | | |(Vid. Niebuhr's Lectures, vol. iii. p. 181.) | | | | | | 24| 777|Cassius Severus, an exile in Seriphos. Tac. Ann. iv. 21. | | | | | | | |«Cf. Sat. i. 73; vi. 563, 564; x. 170; xiii. 246.» | | | | | | | |C. Plinius Secundus, of Verona, born. | | | | | | 26| 779|Consulship of Cn. Lentulus Gætulicus. (Cf. ad viii. 26.) | | | | | | 27| 780|Tiberius retires to Capreæ. Tac. Ann. iv. 67. Sat. x. | | | |90-95, and 72. | | | | | | 28| 781|Agrippina, daughter of Germanicus, married to Domitius. | | | |«Nero is the issue of this marriage, born A.D. 37.» | | | |Sat. viii. 228; vi. 615. | | | | |202| 29| 782|Death of Livia, mother of Tiberius. | | | | | | | |(Cf. Niebuhr's Lectures, vol. iii. p. 180.) | | | | | | 31| 784|Tiberius consul with Sejanus. Suet. Tib. 26, 65. | | | | | | | |Fall of Sejanus, Oct. 18. He had been in favor now 16 | | | |years.