Thomas Creech citations

Thomas Creech , écrivain anglais, né à Blandford .

Amoureux d'une demoiselle qui ne répondait point à ses vœux, il se pendit de désespoir.

On a de lui plusieurs traductions d'ouvrages latins et grecs : celle de Lucrèce en vers anglais, Oxford, 1682, in-8, est la plus estimée.

Il a aussi donné une bonne édition de ce poète, Londres, 1694, in-8. Wikipedia

✵ 1659 – 19. juillet 1700

Thomas Creech: Citations en anglais

“But now suppose the soul, when separate,
Could live, and think, in a divided state:
Yet what is that to us, who are the whole,
A frame composed of body, joined with soul?
Nay, grant the scattered ashes of our urn,
Be joined again, and life and sense return:
Yet how can that concern us, when 'tis done,
Since all the memory of past life is gone?
Now we ne'er joy, nor grieve, to think that we
Were heretofore, nor what those things will be,
Which framed from us, the following age shall see.
When we revolve, how numerous years have run,
How oft the east beheld the rising sun
E'er we began, and how the atoms move,
How the unthinking seed forever strove;
'Tis probable, and reason's laws allow,
These seeds of ours were once combined as now;
Yet now who minds, who knows his former state?
The interim of death, the hand of fate,
Or stopped the seeds, or made them all commence
Such motions, as destroyed the former sense.”

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Thomas Creech

T. Lucretius Carus the Epicurean Philosopher, His Six Books De Natura Rerum Done into English Verse (1682), Book III, lines 820–840