... Lucretius. Lucretius, nobler than his mood, Who dropped his plummet down the broad, Deep universe, and said, 'No God/ Finding no bottom : he denied Divinely the divine, and died Chief poet on the Tiber-side By grace of God: His face is ...
... Lucretius, wrote his magnificent poem ' On Nature/ and set forth in noble verse the Epicurean doctrine touching the universe of things physical and mental. The nature of the mind and soul, says Lucretius, is bodily; for when it is seen ...
... Lucretius and Horace were inspired prophets : what they saw by the exercise of reason illumined by poetic genius has been now thoroughly based upon facts carefully ascertained and arranged ; until Thomson and Nilsson, the northern ...
... Lucretius, to the modern man of science, is better known than any other ancient poet. Professor Jowett used to say that all that was really known of Shakespeare might be written on half a sheet of note-paper. Of Lucretius very much less ...
... Lucretius, Virgil, Epictetus, the same system showed itself in a sincere and strenuous moral life closely akin to that of the Stoics. We may, therefore, accept as historically true and as being well within the suggestions of the poem ...
... Lucretius writes the great line of the poem — Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum — such are the evils to which religion leads! And he soon adds, "This terror and darkness of mind must be dispelled, not by the rays of the sun and the ...
... Lucretius, the poet in whom we are here particularly interested; for he was not at one time poet and at another time scientist, but rather both at once. It is Mrs. Browning's judgment that Lucretius '(Tied chief poet on the Tiber-side ...
... Lucretius. In a poem, On the Nature of Things, Lucretius champions atomism in a vivid appeal to experience. "Water dripping from the eves hollows a stone, the bent ploughshare of iron imperceptibly decreases in the fields . . . the ...
... Lucretius * wrote his great poem, " On the Nature of Things," in which he, a Roman, developed with extraordinary ardor the philosophy of his Greek predecessor. He wishes to win over his friend Memnius to the school of Epicurus ; and ...
... Lucretius even announces them in connection with the domestication of animals, which was the precise point from which Darwin started in his effort to account for 'the origin of ... Lucretius are a LUCRETIUS AND THE EVOLUTION IDEA. 171.