Of the Nature of Things: In Six Books, Volumen 2G. Sawbridge, 1714 |
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... which he has already difputed in the four preceding Books : and being now about to treat of the first Rife , and future Diffolution of the World , he he teaches , III . That the Earth , the [ 421 ] T. LUCRETIUS CARUS ...
... which he has already difputed in the four preceding Books : and being now about to treat of the first Rife , and future Diffolution of the World , he he teaches , III . That the Earth , the [ 421 ] T. LUCRETIUS CARUS ...
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... Rife of Herbs , Trees , Birds , Beafts , and Man ; and tells the Order in which each Kind of Things was produc'd out of the Earth , one after another , to wit , firft the Grafs , then the Trees , next the Birds , then Beafts , and laft ...
... Rife of Herbs , Trees , Birds , Beafts , and Man ; and tells the Order in which each Kind of Things was produc'd out of the Earth , one after another , to wit , firft the Grafs , then the Trees , next the Birds , then Beafts , and laft ...
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... rife a GoD from O ETA's Flame : ONⱭ THE S ... alq ersbacD 3704 Had T Snows hide his Shoulders ; from beneath his Chin The Founts of rouling Streams their Race begin : Beard of Ice on his large Breaft depends . A 710 39. Defarts untrod ...
... rife a GoD from O ETA's Flame : ONⱭ THE S ... alq ersbacD 3704 Had T Snows hide his Shoulders ; from beneath his Chin The Founts of rouling Streams their Race begin : Beard of Ice on his large Breaft depends . A 710 39. Defarts untrod ...
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... Rife of Flame . Milton , in Paradife Loft , B. II . As when Alcides , from OEchalia crown'd With Conqueft , felt th ' enve- nom'd Robe , and tore Thro ' Pain up by the Roots Theffalian Pines , And Lichas from the Top of OEta threw Into ...
... Rife of Flame . Milton , in Paradife Loft , B. II . As when Alcides , from OEchalia crown'd With Conqueft , felt th ' enve- nom'd Robe , and tore Thro ' Pain up by the Roots Theffalian Pines , And Lichas from the Top of OEta threw Into ...
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... rife and grow : So neither SOULS can rife without the BLOOD , ( cou'd , And NERVES , and VEINS , and BONES ; for grant they 145 Then thro ' each fingle Part , as Arms , or Head , ' Twould first be fram'd , thence o'er the other spread ...
... rife and grow : So neither SOULS can rife without the BLOOD , ( cou'd , And NERVES , and VEINS , and BONES ; for grant they 145 Then thro ' each fingle Part , as Arms , or Head , ' Twould first be fram'd , thence o'er the other spread ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid afferts againſt Antients Ariftotle Athenians Athens Authour Averni Beafts becauſe Befides believ'd Body bury'd call'd Caufe Cauſe Cicero Clouds cold conftant Countrey dead defcribes Difeafe Difputation Diodorus Siculus Diſeaſe Diſtance Earth Epicurus ev'ry faid fame fays feems feen felf feveral fhould fieze fince Fire firft firſt firy flain Flame fome fometimes fpeaking ftill ftrike ftrong fubtile fuch Funeral Gods Greeks Heat Heaven himſelf Hippocrates increaſe itſelf Jupiter laft laftly lefs Light likewife Lucretius Macrobius moft Moon moſt Motion muft muſt Nature nevertheleſs Noife NOTES Number o'er obferv'd obferve Opinion Ovid Paffage Perfon Philofophers plac'd Place Plague Plague of Athens Plin Pliny Plutarch Poet Pow'r quæ quod Rain reafon rife ſays Seeds ſpread Stars thefe themſelves ther theſe Things thofe thoſe thouſand thro Thucydides Thunder Tranflatour us'd vaft Verfes Water whence whofe Wind World τὸ
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Página 583 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Página 543 - Nor drum was heard, nor trumpet's angry sound; Nor swords were forged ; but void of care and crime. The soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast The flowers, unsown, in fields and meadows reigned ; And western winds immortal spring maintained.
Página 651 - On their eternal anvils here he found The brethren beating, and the blows go round; A load of pointless thunder now there lies Before their hands to ripen for the skies. These darts for angry Jove they daily cast...
Página 498 - Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Página 439 - Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year /,» Seafons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the fweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or fight of vernal bloom, or fummer's rofe, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine : But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark 4£ " Surrounds me ! from the chearful ways of men Cut off...
Página 528 - Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore : Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when call'd In secret riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Página 533 - As from his lair, the wild beast, where he wons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den ; Among the trees in pairs they rose, they...
Página 549 - Could thro' the ranks of ruin go, With storms above, and rocks below ! In vain did Nature's wise command Divide the waters from the land, If daring ships and men prophane Invade th' inviolable main ; Th' eternal fences over-leap, And pass at will the boundless deep.
Página 471 - Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball. The tender soil then, stiff'ning by degrees, Shut from the bounded earth the bounding seas. Then earth and ocean various forms disclose; And a new sun to the new world arose; And mists, condens'd to clouds, obscure the sky; And clouds, dissolv'd, the thirsty ground supply.
Página 471 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.