TRANSLATIONS OF JUVENAL—WORDSWORTH

Mr. Markland's ascertainment (Vol. i., p. 481.) of the origin of Johnson's "From China to Peru," where, however, I sincerely believe our great moralist intended not so much to borrow the phrase as to profit by its temporary notoriety and popularity, reminds me of a conversation, many years since, with the late William Wordsworth, at which I happened to be present, and which now derives an additional interest from the circumstance of his recent decease. Some mention had been made of the opening lines of the tenth satire of Juvenal: "Omnibus in terris, quae sunt a Gadibus usque Auroram, et Gange…