But Gilbert Wakefield was a critic by profession, and apparently as great in English as he was in Greek.
Varro.
Passage in Gray's Elegy.—I do not remember to have seen noted the evident Lucretian origin of the verse—
"For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,
Nor busy housewife ply her evening care;
No children run to lisp their sire's return,
Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share."
Compare Lucretius, lib. 3. v. 907.:
"At jam non domus accipiet te læta; neque uxor
Optima, nec dulces occurrent oscula nati