THE BRITISH CRITIC, FOR JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, MDCCC VII. Hocc'eft advorfo nixantem trudere monte VOLUME XXIX. LUCRET. London: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, Printed by Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell PREFACE. FROM the unceasing, and ever augmenting calamities of Europe, happy are the hours that compel us to turn to the contemplation of British Literature. Even the worst books are a temporary refuge from ftill worfe news; and the most abfurd fpeculations are welcome, while they turn aside our attention from the most melancholy facts. Under thefe impreffions, to which every new half year gives tenfold force, we fit down to write our prefent preface: to cull the flowers of recent literature, and recommend afresh what, in this volume, has obtained approbation. Let us then turn away our eyes altogether from public events, and enjoy, for a fhort time at leaft, the recollection of good books, and the oblivion of bad things. our DIVINITY. Several articles in the prefent, and fome in our preceding volume, are devoted to the biblical labours of Dr. Stock, Bishop of Killala*. In tranflating Jaiab his object was to make fuch corrections of the Verfion of Lowth, as the original Hebrew, printed * No. II. p. 134. IV and V. pp. 368 and 496. |