Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 02 – Against Teleological (Lucretius Poems)
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
At length the great decisive Year is come,And Britain triumphs o'er the Wiles of Rome,No more in Frowns our Holy ...
All veiled in black, with faces hid from sight, Crouching together in the jolting cart, What forms are these that pass alone, ...
Joy was in Israel; for all hoped that, now, A three days' journey in the wilderness Verily should they go, ...
THE STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE.A serious Toyman in the city dwelt,Who much concern for his religion felt;Reading, he changed his tenets, ...
With eager search to dart the soul,Curiously vain, from pole to pole,And from the planets' wandering spheresTo extort the number ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
The jocund years with smiling plenty crown'd,In shining circles now advanc'd their round:Unbounded crops reward the reaper's toil,And rustick pleasures ...
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
Ogrin the Hermit in old age set forth This tale to them that sought him in the extreme Ancient grey ...
But now Sabrina's guilty fire returns, Her bosom with the raging passion burns: She with a female tenderness relents, And ...
You say there's a Being all-loving, Whose nature is justice and pity; Could you say where you ...
I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate,Of the days of that old gentleman who had that ...
Discerning Mr. Murphy sees The dangers of the foolish planOf giving frailty its fees, And taxing weak, misguided man.Reluctantly, and ...
Me let the world disparage and despise — As one unfettered with its gilded chains, As one untempted by its ...
To govern simply by statute and to maintain order by means of penalties is to render the people evasive and ...
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation's sacrifice To turn ...
I The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, ...
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