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FROM the observations already made on Creech's translation of Lucretius, and the specimens selected from the work, it must evidently appear, that this champion of the Epicurean philosophy among the ancient poets, if ever destined to become interesting or even intelligible to the English reader, must have a more pleasing and skilful interpreter. It requires no small versatility of intellectual powers to excel alike in sketches of personal character, in delineations of the beauty of the landscape, in the details of historical facts, and in the abstruse speculations of philosophy and, however varied the course of the poet may be, he who attempts to tread in his steps, and to give a transcript of his works, is expected to catch something of his inspiration. It is not the only thing required of him who undertakes to translate Lucretius, that he should thoroughly investigate the system of philosophy intended to be explained and propagated by the author: there is a vein of poetry extending through the mass, that is indeed in a great measure concealed by the rubbish of atoms and unformed substances, but which is sometimes to be discovered in a high degree of purity. This constitutes the real value of the whole; for, though intended only to allure us to explore the ground thoroughly, it is the only true reward of our labour. In the year 1805 was published, in two quarto volumes, a translation of Lucretius by John Mason Good; who appears to have been alike captivated by the philosophy and poetical beauties of his author. One hundred and thirty pages are filled with the preface, the life of Lucretius, (in which are included "some few memoirs of other illustrious Epicureans, who were his coevals and friends, together with an examination of the doctrines they professed,") and an appendix, containing a sketch of the alternate support and opposition experienced by this celebrated school in subsequent eras." In this appendix is comprised an account, as well of all the materialists and spiritualists, as of those who have contended for both matter and spirit, from the time of Lucretius down to the present century. After these preliminary essays, containing indeed much labour of supererogation, follow the text of Lucretius, as collated by Gilbert Wakefield, and the translation of Mr. Good, on opposite pages; and no small proportion of almost every page, is devoted to "notes philological and explanatory." The invocation with which the poem De rerum naturae opens, though not admitted by all criticks to be appropriate, is generally acknowledged to be very beautiful. Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divômque voluptas, Quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferenteis, Quae quoniam rerum naturam sola gubernas, Exoritur, neque fit laetum, neque amabile quidquam ; Quos ego de RERUM NATURA pangere conor Quo magis aeternum da dictis, Diva, leporem: Per maria ac terras omneis sopita quiescant. Let us see how this appears in Mr. Good's translation. Parent of Rome! by gods and men belov'd, Hastes, at thy shrine, to plant the future race. Quell, too, the fury of the hostile world, |