Of the Nature of Things: In Six Books, Volume 1G. Sawbridge, 1714 |
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... fince in their Writings are contain'd many impious , prophane , false , ridiculous , and fabulous Affertions ; infomuch that all our Poets , Orators , Hiftorians , and Philofophers must be rejected and thrown away , as Debauchers of ...
... fince in their Writings are contain'd many impious , prophane , false , ridiculous , and fabulous Affertions ; infomuch that all our Poets , Orators , Hiftorians , and Philofophers must be rejected and thrown away , as Debauchers of ...
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... fince the Sadducees themselves , tho ' they were brought up in the Bofom of the Law , ftruck on the fame Rock ; confidering befides , that by the Confent even of the best of Chriftians , the Immortality of the Soul is an Ocean that can ...
... fince the Sadducees themselves , tho ' they were brought up in the Bofom of the Law , ftruck on the fame Rock ; confidering befides , that by the Confent even of the best of Chriftians , the Immortality of the Soul is an Ocean that can ...
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... fince in that he has endeavour'd to evince , omnesquam claro cor- pore fint res , that no Bodies are fo folid , as not to contain fome Void : quod in primo quoque carmi- ne claret . See Book I. v . 402. And he seems ex- prefsly to call ...
... fince in that he has endeavour'd to evince , omnesquam claro cor- pore fint res , that no Bodies are fo folid , as not to contain fome Void : quod in primo quoque carmi- ne claret . See Book I. v . 402. And he seems ex- prefsly to call ...
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... fince Truth , the more it is inquir'd into , fhines the more bright , and appears the more venerable ; Lucretius , and all that are like Lucretius , even tho ' they be Lyars , as they certainly are , ought , in my Opinion , to be read ...
... fince Truth , the more it is inquir'd into , fhines the more bright , and appears the more venerable ; Lucretius , and all that are like Lucretius , even tho ' they be Lyars , as they certainly are , ought , in my Opinion , to be read ...
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... fince we live in fuch a fulfom Age , When Nonfence loads the Prefs , and choaks the Stage ; When Block - heads will claim Wit in Natures spight , And every Dunce , that ftarves , prefumes to write , Exert your self , defend the Mufes ...
... fince we live in fuch a fulfom Age , When Nonfence loads the Prefs , and choaks the Stage ; When Block - heads will claim Wit in Natures spight , And every Dunce , that ftarves , prefumes to write , Exert your self , defend the Mufes ...
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Page 298 - Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Page 270 - As for the dog, the furies, and their snakes, The gloomy caverns, and the burning lakes, And all the vain infernal trumpery, They neither are, nor were, nor e'er can be. But here on earth, the guilty have in view The mighty pains to. mighty mischiefs due; Racks, prisons, poisons, the Tarpeian Rock, Stripes, hangmen, pitch, and suffocating smoke; And last, and most, if these were cast behind, Th...
Page 279 - ... with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 196 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 98 - The institution has, indeed, continued to our own time ; the garret is still the usual receptacle of the philosopher and poet ; but this, like many ancient customs, is perpetuated only by an accidental imitation, without knowledge of the original reason for which it was established.
Page 298 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page 272 - Meantime, when thoughts of death disturb thy head, Consider, Ancus, great and good, is dead; Ancus, thy better far, was born to die, And thou, dost thou bewail mortality? So many monarchs with their mighty state, Who ruled the world, were overruled by fate.
Page 202 - The next, in place and punishment, are they Who prodigally throw their souls away; Fools, who, repining at their wretched state, And loathing anxious life, suborn'd their fate. With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live; Their pains and poverty desire to bear, To view the light of heav'n, and breathe the vital air...
Page 202 - With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live; Their pains and poverty desire to bear, To view the light of heav'n, and breathe the vital air : But fate forbids; the Stygian floods oppose, And with nine circling streams the captive souls inclose.
Page 136 - High as the Mother of the Gods in place, And proud, like her, of an immortal race. Then, when in pomp she makes the Phrygian round, With golden turrets on her temples crown'd; A hundred gods her sweeping train supply; Her offspring all, and all command the sky.