The Works of the English Poets, Volume 24J. Nichols, 1779 - 228 halaman |
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... demand . I may fafely conclude , that no man will expect that in this poem I should borrow any embellishments from the exploded and obfolete theology of the ancient ido- laters of Greece or Rome : that I should addrefs any " rapturous ...
... demand . I may fafely conclude , that no man will expect that in this poem I should borrow any embellishments from the exploded and obfolete theology of the ancient ido- laters of Greece or Rome : that I should addrefs any " rapturous ...
Halaman 36
... princi- ples . I demand only a candid temper in the reader , and a mind pleased with truth , and delivered from the prejudices of atheistical converfation . SUMMARY ACCOUNT of the following POEM , and of what 36 PREFACE .
... princi- ples . I demand only a candid temper in the reader , and a mind pleased with truth , and delivered from the prejudices of atheistical converfation . SUMMARY ACCOUNT of the following POEM , and of what 36 PREFACE .
Halaman 53
... demand , What moves them first , and puts them off at hand ? What makes them this one way their race direct , While they a thousand other ways reje & ? Why do they never once their courfe inflect ? Why do they roll with fuch an equal ...
... demand , What moves them first , and puts them off at hand ? What makes them this one way their race direct , While they a thousand other ways reje & ? Why do they never once their courfe inflect ? Why do they roll with fuch an equal ...
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... demand , For their defcent , a prone and finking land , Does not this due declivity declare A wife Director's providential care ? 595 ' See , how the streams advancing to the main Through crooked channels draw their crystal train ! 600 ...
... demand , For their defcent , a prone and finking land , Does not this due declivity declare A wife Director's providential care ? 595 ' See , how the streams advancing to the main Through crooked channels draw their crystal train ! 600 ...
Halaman 69
... demand ! But had he , in th ' unmeasurable space Of æther , chofen a remoter place ; For inftance , pleas'd with that fuperior feat 195 110 Where Saturn , or where Jove , their courfe repeat ; Or had he happen'd farther yet to lie In ...
... demand ! But had he , in th ' unmeasurable space Of æther , chofen a remoter place ; For inftance , pleas'd with that fuperior feat 195 110 Where Saturn , or where Jove , their courfe repeat ; Or had he happen'd farther yet to lie In ...
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æther affert againſt Anaxagoras aſk Atheiſts atoms caufe cauſe Chance chufe chyle conftant courſe defcend defign defign'd demonftration diſplay divine earth endued Epicurean Epicurus eternal exiftence exiſtence fame fate fchool feat fecret fenfe fhall fhould fide fince firſt fkies flood flow fnows folar fome force form'd fource fpacious fpirits fpring frame ftill ftores ftreams ftrong fuch fuperior fyftem glebe globe Heaven heavenly hills honour immenfe impulfive irreligion juft juſt labour laws lefs light Lucretians Lucretius mafs matter mind motion move muft muſt Nature Nature's ne'er neceffity o'er Obferve orbs paſs philofophers plain pleaſe pleaſure purfue purſue race reafon reft religion rife ſay ſcheme ſhow ſkies ſkill ſky ſpace ſphere ſpread ſtate ſtay ſtill taſk tell thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thouſand uſe vaft vapours various veins vigour Whence whofe wifdom wife winds wondrous