 | 1804 - 552 pàgines
...frame. IK-nce, without parent, by spontaneous birth, Hise the first specks of animated earth; Frum From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. ' In earth, sea, air, around, below, above, Life's subtle woof in Nature's loom is wove ; Points glued... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - 1990 - 429 pàgines
...Awhile extinct the organic matter lies" until "Alchemical powers the changing mass dissolve"; thus "without parent by spontaneous birth / Rise the first specks of animated earth." Linnaeus's hydra, which grew best in stagnant waters and manifested miraculous powers "to revive after... | |
 | Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore - 1994 - 910 pàgines
...Creation itself? Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic Life began beneath the waves . . . Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth.3 There spoke Erasmus, a hard-headed freethinker, like so many in the sun-lit years of the Enlightenment.... | |
 | Ian Haywood, Zachary Leader - 1998 - 280 pàgines
...Additional Note 1, Spontaneous Vitality of Microscopic Animals (glossing especially the above lines 247-8: 'Hence without parent by spontaneous birth/ Rise the first specks of animated earth') From the misconception of the ignorant or superstitious it has been thought somewhat profane to speak in... | |
 | A.S. Weber - 2000 - 518 pàgines
...ethereal flame'4 Lights into life the fibre-woven frame. — Hence without parent by spontaneous birth1' Rise the first specks of animated earth; From Nature's...subtle woof in Nature's loom is wove; Points glued to points a living line extends, Touch'd by some goad approach the bending ends; Rings join to rings,... | |
 | Michael Ruse - 2001 - 362 pàgines
...shoreless earth; Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic life began beneath the waves .... Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth (Darwin 1803, 1,231-248) Lamarck had similar views. He thought that worms and the like are produced... | |
 | James H. Bunn - 2002 - 372 pàgines
...Love, the creator of life in the sea. Here is his vision about the origin of life from a few forms: In earth, sea, air, around, below, above Life's subtle woof in Nature's loom is wove; Points glued to points, a living line extends, Touch'd by some goad approach the bending ends; Rings join to rings,... | |
 | R. D. Keynes - 2003 - 472 pàgines
...the shoreless earth; Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic Life began beneath the waves. Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the...swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves First forms minute,... | |
 | Noah Heringman - 2004 - 340 pàgines
...history and its physiology begin with an account of spontaneous generation, in a similar vein (1.247-50): Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the...swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. Such subject matter clearly tests the limits of poetry, and a great deal spills over into the "philosophical... | |
 | Benjamin Wiker, Jonathan Witt - 2006 - 256 pàgines
...shoreless earth; Nursed by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic life began beneath the waves. . . . Hence without parent by spontaneous birth, Rise the first specks of animated earth." 18Lucretius's work was an "established classic" both in the sense of being widely read and in the sense... | |
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Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth ; From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs. 
