| 单词 | Lucretius |
| 例句 | As we have seen, the ‘corpuscularian philosophy’, as Boyle called it, was based on the teachings of Epicurus and Lucretius, opponents of all religion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The same phrase is then employed by Newton in his definition of inertia; he evidently took the phrase from Descartes, and discovered only later that it originated in Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For Lucretius the attraction of iron by a magnet takes place according to a law of nature, and species breed true, dogs producing dogs and cats cats, according to a law of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With time, of course, the original meaning of Lucretius’s phrase was lost; as machines changed, the meaning of Lucretius’s phrase changed with them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A foedus is a league, or compact, but it is often used as synonymous with lex, and Renaissance commentators on Lucretius interpreted him as talking about the laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The passage originally contained a single direct quotation from Lucretius, but two more were added in 1588, and we will see in a moment that it is directly inspired by Lucretius on foedus naturae. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Montaigne’s thinking here derives from his reading of Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Many perfectly good English constructions were stigmatized because they had no counterparts in the language of Lucretius and Cicero. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This distinction between objective reality and subjective sensation was made by Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The atomism of Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius implied that the universe is made up of building blocks that function through their size, shape and solidity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In order for this to happen, however, the text of Lucretius was not enough. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For Epicurus and Lucretius, what matters about atoms is their size, shape and movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bacon writes of ‘the law of nature and the mutual contracts of things’: he is paraphrasing Lucretius. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The atomic reality that Lucretius describes is not an isolated phenomenon—it is not a separate realm of electrons and nuclei, electromagnetic fields, particles and waves. The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z An admirer of Epicurus, Lucretius had the nerve to link pleasure with virtue. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z Lucretius speaks across the millenniums because he offers “the power to stare down what had once seemed so menacing,” Mr. Greenblatt writes. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z This book’s pumping heart is Mr. Greenblatt’s complicated reckoning with Lucretius’ masterpiece. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z Lucretius deepened and refined this view, packaging his revolutionary ideas in a most palatable form: a poem. 'The Swerve': An ancient poem lights a modern fire 2011-10-06T19:16:04Z Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve," a dramatic account of the Renaissance era rediscovery of the Latin poet Lucretius, won for nonfiction Wednesday night. Jesmyn Ward's 'Salvage' wins National Book Award 2011-11-17T03:58:07Z This 7,400-line poem was written by Titus Lucretius Carus nearly 50 years before the birth of Christ. 'The Swerve': An ancient poem lights a modern fire 2011-10-06T19:16:04Z They had taken me to see Greta Garbo in “Grand Hotel,” Marlene Dietrich live in concert, and given me books since I was 9 — Sean O’Casey, Lucretius, Moss Hart. T Magazine: Vexed in Venice 2011-12-01T00:10:20Z Set down the creation of the universe as related in Genesis and then add the pagan version outlined by Lucretius and both suddenly invite debate and discussion. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z A Harvard University scholar, Stephen Greenblatt, was a finalist for "The Swerve," his story of the Renaissance-era rediscovery of Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" and the Latin poem's influence on Western thinking. Adrienne Rich among National Book Award finalists 2011-10-12T16:50:09Z The word that Lucretius used for “atom” is the same word he used for “letter of the alphabet.” The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Religious fear, Lucretius thought, long before there was a Christopher Hitchens, warps human life. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z It marks his emergence, relatively late in life, as a translator, containing work by various Greek and Latin authors: Theocritus, Lucretius, Horace, Ovid among them. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z This led to my tackling some of Lucretius’ long poem, written sometime in the first century B.C.E., in a prose translation by A. E. Stallings. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The general nonfiction prize was given to "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," Stephen Greenblatt's telling of the 15th century rediscovery of the Latin poet Lucretius. The late Manning Marable wins history Pulitzer 2012-04-16T19:25:10Z “The core of Lucretius’ poem is a profound, therapeutic meditation on the fear of death, and that fear dominated my entire childhood,” Mr. Greenblatt writes. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z Lucretius knew that the two domains are sides of the same coin, that the one does not exist without the other. The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z His most significant find, located in a German monastery, was a copy of Lucretius’ “On the Nature of Things,” which had been lost to history for more than a thousand years. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z Some sixty years before the birth of Christ, Lucretius wrote his only known work, “On the Nature of Things,” a didactic poem about how the world is made of atoms. The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s possible to admire Mr. Greenblatt’s book while wishing it contained more of the boldness and weirdness he admires in Lucretius. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z Mr. Stewart argues that America’s founders drew inspiration not so much from Christianity and British political theory but rather from ancient pagan philosophers like Lucretius, and from Spinoza’s concept of natural divinity. National Book Awards Nominees, Nonfiction 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z I can't help but wish Lucretius was around today to infuriate FOX News pundits. 'The Swerve': An ancient poem lights a modern fire 2011-10-06T19:16:04Z Montaigne’s essays contain more than 100 quotations from Lucretius’ poem. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z Lucretius played down the beauty of his own poetry, Mr. Greenblatt observes, comparing his verses “to honey smeared around the lip of a cup containing medicine that a sick man might otherwise refuse to drink.” Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z Lucretius promulgated a worldview sharply at odds with that of religious and political leaders; indeed, a view that would never sit right with the Christian church. 'The Swerve': An ancient poem lights a modern fire 2011-10-06T19:16:04Z A real reader dances from Mantel's or Self's latest to a Henry James or Agatha Christie or Lucretius. Why do we need a light show to see Hadrian's Wall? 2012-08-23T14:59:31Z Stephen Greenblatt took the nonfiction honor for "The Swerve," an account of the rediscovery of a work by the Latin poet Lucretius and what it meant for civilization. National Book Awards, and a question 2011-11-17T19:31:08Z Lucretius was an Epicurean and a stone-cold materialist whose influence steered philosophy and science away from religion. Thomas Browne, 17th-Century Author, Draws New Interest 2012-08-07T12:00:00Z Browne was a devoted Anglican who believed in witches and who, in a letter to his son, once warned of the spiritual dangers of reading Lucretius, “there being divers impieties in it.” Thomas Browne, 17th-Century Author, Draws New Interest 2012-08-07T12:00:00Z The philosopher Lucretius is the hero of the story, and Lightman recounts how the Roman’s works played a key role in the development of his own thinking. Review | Explaining spiritual experiences through a scientific lens 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Epicurus and Lucretius saw the fear of death as our most debilitating fear, and they argued that we must overcome this fear if we were going to live happy lives. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z So there he is, among this philosophical elite, who share the rediscovered wisdom of such ancient authors as Plato and Lucretius, recently rediscovered in Florence. The $80m Botticelli: could its auction trigger a Covid-rescue fire sale? 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z In matters of philosophy, he denounced Romanticism, recovered the teachings of Lucretius, and provoked Nietzsche, Mach, James, Hilbert, and Wittgenstein. The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Another famed ancient, Lucretius, thought sleep is caused by the spirit being attacked and weakened into a state of senescence by mysterious air particles. Why Do We Sleep? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z He is a lecturer, whom we see discussing Lucretius; she is a fine pianist, busy rehearsing for the lawyers’ Christmas concert. Emma Thompson’s Meticulous Intensity in “The Children Act” 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Lucretius adopts a material atomism that holds that things are composed of atoms in motion. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Lucretius, as Greenblatt notes in “The Swerve,” called his own poem “honey smeared around the lip of a cup containing medicine that a sick man might otherwise refuse to drink.” The story of Adam and Eve: From myth to fact and back to myth again 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “On the Nature of Things,” a poem from the Roman philosopher Lucretius in the first century B.C., was one of the most “dangerously radical” things ever written, Stephen Greenblatt argued in his book “The Swerve.” Sorry, but the smartphone is no Gutenberg press 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z In Britain, Lady Jane Grey translated Euripides and, in the 17th century, Lucy Hutchinson produced the first complete translation into English of Lucretius. Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The Roman poet Lucretius committed Epicurus’ cosmic vision to verse in his ancient bestseller, “On the Nature of Things,” which then slipped through the Middle Ages in hiding. Our Founders, alien-obsessed: Adams and Franklin had a thing — really! — for extraterrestials 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The Lucretius problem is exacerbated by the fact data captured in the past is not necessarily as reliable or as complete as data captured today. SAPVoice: History might not be the greatest teacher 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z But as Stephen Greenblatt describes in “The Swerve,” this notion goes back at least to the Greek philosopher Epicurus and the poem by Lucretius that explicated his philosophy, “De Rerum Natura.” Letters: Atoms Everywhere (1 Letter) 2013-08-12T20:51:36Z The atom had fascinated philosophers of old, from Democritus to Aristotle to Lucretius to Leibniz to Newton. The Story of Energy: The Physics of an Atom Part 1 2013-07-19T15:15:16.940Z For most of recorded history, no one accepted the existence atoms, even though Democritus, Lucretius and other ancient philosophers described them. Aristotle claimed matter was infinitely divisible and his view dominated for 2,000 years. The Real Power of Crystals: Attesting to Atoms 2013-02-15T14:15:03.507Z Lucretius’ poem was suppressed and all but forgotten. Our Founders, alien-obsessed: Adams and Franklin had a thing — really! — for extraterrestials 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Bracciolini’s ability to pull out of the ash bin of history a single Lucretius poem 1,400 years after the Roman scholar wrote it was based on the physical nature of the information. Lucretius's Legacy Depended On The Toughness Of Vellum. What Will Save Ours? 2012-11-09T16:50:34Z Lucretius speaks of Empedocles in terms scarcely less exaggerated than those which he applied to Epicurus. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z The apostrophe of Nature to mankind immediately suggests the spirit as well as the language of Lucretius. Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z This does not necessarily imply that the precise context is recalled, or certain hackneyed trifles from Lucretius and Horace, and a score of such chips in porridge, would be indecent. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The fearless scrutiny of all notions of popular belief, displayed in the writings of Cicero, Seneca, Lucretius, or Lucian, did not excite an effort of repression. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z A coin struck by L. Lucretius Trio in 74 B.C., shows the seven stars of the Plough, or as the ancients called them Septem Triones. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z They confirm the speculations of Lucretius as to a universal makeshift with stone, bone, horn, and such-like accessible or pliable substances during the ages that preceded the discovery of metals. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z I made room for him on my trunk, and, though rusted somewhat since I philosophized over Lucretius, we got on very tolerably. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Lucretius and Catullus are excellently represented: as in the field of Roman drama are Plautus and Terence, with fragments of elder playwrights. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z That the sleep of annihilation is the happiest end of man is a favourite thought of Lucretius. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Every page bears evidence of the pains and ability displayed by Mr. Watson in his endeavour to clothe Lucretius in an English garb. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-15T02:00:34.113Z Adopting the physical speculations of these forerunners, he made them the vehicle of didactic and ethical philosophies which inspired the production of the wonderful poem of Lucretius. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z In reading Lucretius we are impressed by his earnestness, his pathos, his elevation of feeling; in Horace we are charmed by the serenity of his temper and the flavour of a delicate and subtle wisdom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Lucretius, 12, 16, 20, 30, 71. on religion, 25, 26, 27. on Nature, 25. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Democritus and Lucretius looked upon them as spectres and simulacra of corporeal things, emitted from them, floating in the air, and assailing the soul. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z We must remember that though the source of Western culture is not Latin, but Greek, yet its meagre channels in medieval Europe were Latin; its best tradition lay in Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Virgil. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z With the dignity which his high mission inspires, Lucretius appeals to us in the threefold character of teacher, reformer, and poet. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z In his early life he professed his adherence to the former system, and several expressions in his first published work show the influences of the study of Lucretius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Closely connected with this fear of ghosts and of the dead is that terror of death which Lucretius spends so much labour in trying to dissipate. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z There's a verse on that sentiment in Lucretius, I think. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z There were no poets the equals of Horace or Virgil, no philosophers as great as Lucretius, no orators like Cicero, no emperors like Marcus Aurelius, no women like the mothers of Rome. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z His speculations about things, like those of Parmenides before him and of Lucretius after him, are set down in verse. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z In his whole religious attitude he seems to stand midway between the consistent denial of Lucretius and Virgil’s pious endeavour to reconcile ancient faith with the conclusions of philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z It was the establishment of law which brought peace to Lucretius. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z How was it possible for Lucretius to get along without the Bible?—how did the great and glorious of that empire? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z I thank the thinkers of Greece and Rome, Zeno and Epicurus, Cicero and Lucretius. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Postponing further reference to this theory until the great name of Lucretius, its Roman exponent, is reached, we find a genuine scientific method making its first start in the person of Aristotle. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z He is, though in a different sense from Lucretius, eminently a philosophical and reflective poet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z That Lucretius should be so open to impressions of this kind, in spite of his philosophy, is ra measure of his greatness as a poet. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Varro also is mentioned by ancient writers, in connexion with Empedocles and Lucretius, as the author of a metrical work 'De Rerum Natura4.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z If this explanation of the inconsistencies in his poetry be correct, it is obvious that the parallel often sought to be traced between him and Lucretius has no existence. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z It dies with the body, in support of which statement Lucretius advances seventeen arguments, so determined is he to “deliver those who through fear of death are all their lifetime subject to bondage.” Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z The fine image of Lucretius was realised, and the torch of learning was handed on from generation to generation. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Lucretius was impressed with man's insignificance in the universe; Horace, with man's folly. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Yet neither the antecedent nor the later attention devoted to these subjects explains the powerful attraction which they had for Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z There is probably more of Lucretius about the poem, but more of Ecclesiastes about the translator. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Lucretius on location of, 25.Spain, intellectual advance in, 80.Spectroscope, the, 178.Spencer, Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z The dance of the dust-motes in the sunbeam was to Lucretius the result of the more complex motion whereby the atoms which compose that dust are agitated. Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z After all, more help was to be had from Lucretius than from Epictetus in ridding the mind of the paralysis of polytheism. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Lucretius, while contemplating the majesty of Nature's laws, and the immensity of her range, is at the same time powerfully moved to sympathy with her ever-varying life. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z His Omar has often, and naturally, been compared to Lucretius and to Ecclesiastes. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Concerning the first, anthropological research, in its vast accumulation of materials during the last sixty years, has done little more than fill in the outline which the insight of Lucretius enabled him to sketch. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Stephen Greenblatt’s “The Swerve,” a dramatic account of the Renaissance era rediscovery of the Latin poet Lucretius, won for nonfiction Wednesday night. Jesmyn Ward?s novel ?Salvage the Bones? wins National Book Award for fiction 2011-11-17T03:32:52Z It has also been habitually associated with physical sentiment, as the splendid pro�mium of Lucretius suggests. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z The four chapters on Lucretius have been carefully revised, and, in part, re-written. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The Latin style is formed chiefly on Lucretius and Horace. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z A Harvard University scholar, Stephen Greenblatt, was a finalist for “The Swerve,” his story of the Renaissance-era rediscovery of Lucretius’ ”On the Nature of Things” and the Latin poem’s influence on Western thinking. Poet Adrienne Rich, the late Manning Marable among National Book Award finalists 2011-10-12T16:45:22Z After the voice which reproaches the priest-like soldier, we hear the voice which rebukes the militant priest; and a fire, as the fire of Juvenal, is outshone by a light as the light of Lucretius.' Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z If he were Gronski and ever in his life had read Lucretius' hymn to Venus, he would have been able to know and name that power. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z I have more especially to express my sense of obligation to Mr. Munro's writings on Lucretius and Catullus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z And in a Note to this adds: "That in Horace and Propertius, the first syllable of Britannia is short, but in Lucretius, on the contrary, it is long." Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-12T02:00:27.427Z The first selection on the programme was an "Overture to Lucretius", and as nearly all of the company were members of the students' orchestra, Mildred found herself left alone with the few piano pupils. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z I shall be reminded, perhaps, of Lucretius and Shelley, but even these, as the exceptions, would only serve to prove the rule. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z His annotated edition of Lucretius is one of his chief works. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z The peculiarity of the poem of Lucretius, that which makes it unique in literature, is the fact that it is a long sustained argument in verse. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z "It has its origin in fear."—Lucretius and others. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Lucretius traces, in the fifth book of his poem, the progressive genesis of vegetal and animal forms out of the mother-earth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Lucretius had argued against the immortality of the soul. Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z Lucretius's lines which make human sufferings the butt of the jokes of the gods who look gleefully on from their Elysian happiness, would represent the feelings of these doubters better than any religious expression. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z What then was this philosophy which supplied to Lucretius an answer to the perplexities of existence? The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The former had the more versatile literary gift, but the latter was far more ‘high built’ in learning, and his edition of Lucretius is admittedly one of the triumphs of English classical culture. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Lucretius touches on the development of man out of a primitive, hardy, beast-like condition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z But we do laugh at some one who has fallen into the mud, because, as Lucretius says, it is sweet to find in others some evil not to be found in ourselves. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Lucretius himself is said to have committed suicide. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The kind of attraction which the last of these has for him confirms the criticism of Goethe, that Lucretius shows the observing faculty of a physician, as well as of a poet. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The original Omar has been compared to Lucretius; as FitzGerald represents him he is far more suggestive of Horace. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Lucretius thus recognizes the whole range of existence to which the doctrine of evolution may be applied. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Science he regards as not suitable material for poetry, and accordingly such writers as Lucretius and Fracastoro are not poets. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z He lives on the shield of Achilles, singing, accompanied by a viol, to the grape-pickers; he is crowned with flowers in the golden age of Lucretius as he raises his sweet song at the festa. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z But of the national pride by which the older poet was animated, the work of Lucretius bears only scanty traces. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The younger was to the elder somewhat as Sophocles or Euripides was to �schylus, as Virgil was to Lucretius, as Pope was to Dryden. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Thus the Georgics of Virgil and the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius profess to give, the one a complete account of agriculture and kindred arts, the other a philosophical explanation of the world. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Lucretius, Cicero, Pliny, and Diogenes Laertius are our chief authorities for his doctrines.—Bibliography: The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z And to crown all, the old atomic theory, which Lucretius had made the foundation of his dogmatic materialism, was now re-established on an experimental basis. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Jahrb. cxxix, referred to in Schmidt's Catullus, attempts to show by an examination of the dates assigned for the birth of Lucretius, that he was born in 97 b.c. and died in 53 b.c. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z His philosophical system was different from that of Lucretius; but he had discussed almost all the subjects on which the Roman bard afterwards expatiated. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The philosophy of Epicurus has been already mentioned while speaking of Lucretius. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z He wrote didactic poetry, and prepared the way for Lucretius. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z It is hardly possible to exaggerate the importance attached by materialists, ever since Lucretius, to the conception of indivisible and indestructible atoms. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Whether Lucretius died in his 44th or 42nd year cannot be of much consequence to anybody; and, in the general uncertainty of Jerome's dates, it seems impossible to determine it one way or other. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It was thus that Lucretius was enabled to embody in Roman verse the whole Epicurean system, and Catullus to imitate or translate the lighter amatory and epigrammatic compositions of the Greeks. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Cicero, in his refutation, which is contained in the second book, gives rather a different representation of the philosophy of Epicurus, from his great poetic contemporary Lucretius. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z This system is called naturalism; and of this Lucretius is the unrivalled poet. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z "But what had Lucretius to do with it?" persisted the doctor. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z An interval of nearly half a century elapsed between the death of Lucilius and the appearance of the poem of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z A taste for Greek philosophy had been excited at Rome for a considerable time before this era, and Lucretius was sent, with other young Romans of rank, to study at Athens. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z At the end of this edition, there are published some MS. notes and emendations, taken from Bentley’s own copy of Faber’s edition of Lucretius, in the library of the British Museum. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z In Lucretius and in Dante themselves we find passages where nothing is poetical except the metre, or some incidental ornament. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Lucretius, on the contrary, taught that all the impulses of passion are good. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z What Cicero did for Latin prose, in revealing the fertility of its resources, in giving to it more ample volume, and eliciting its capabilities of sonorous rhythmical movement, Lucretius aspires to do for Latin verse. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Of this tranquility there are, according to Epicurus, as expounded by Lucretius, two chief enemies, superstition, or slavish fear of the gods, and the dread of death443. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z He has prefixed Wakefield’s prefaces, and a long dissertation of his own, on the Life and Poetical Writings of Lucretius, in which he scarcely does justice to the poetical genius of his author. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Our ignorance of the life of Lucretius is not, I think, much to be regretted. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Diodorus Siculus, Lucretius, Horace, and many other Greek and Roman writers, consider language as one of the arts invented by man. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z In the disparaging references to the Latin writers on Greek philosophy before the appearance of his own Tusculan Questions and Academics, he makes no exception in favour of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z With respect to the other great leading tenet of Lucretius and his master—the mortality of the soul, still greater injustice is done to the philosopher and poet. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In consequence, perhaps, of the freedom of his philosophical, and a misrepresentation of his moral tenets, Lucretius was longer of being rendered into the Italian language than almost any other classic. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Lucretius and the Greeks, in observing universal mutation and the vanity of life, conceived behind appearance a great intelligible process, an evolution in nature. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z But the greatest of its Roman names was Lucretius, whose De rerum natura embodies the main teaching of Epicurus with great exactness, and with a beauty which the subject seemed scarcely to allow. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z While Lucretius pays the tribute of admiration to the literary accomplishment of his friend, and to the active part which he played in politics, he yet addresses him with the authority of a master. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In versifying the philosophical system of Epicurus, Lucretius appears to have taken Empedocles as his model. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z This pretended disgust, however, at the typography of his Lucretius, was probably a pretext. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z We have now before us the antecedents and components of Lucretius' poem on nature. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Lucretius is a proof, if any were needed, that Epicureanism is compatible with nobility of soul. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The caustic sense of Ennius, the generous scorn of Lucretius, the license of Catullus, attest their affinity, in some elements of character, to the Roman satirists. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z These writers, Empedocles and Ennius, were probably Lucretius’ chief guides; and though the most original of the Latin poets, many of his finest passages may be traced to the Greeks. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The translation is accompanied with the original text of Lucretius, printed from Wakefield’s edition, and very full notes are subjoined, containing passages exhibiting imitations of Lucretius by succeeding poets. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z That things have their poetry, not because of what we make them symbols of, but because of their own movement and life, is what Lucretius proves once for all to mankind. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Authorities.—The chief ancient accounts of Epicurus are in the tenth book of Diogenes La�rtius, in Lucretius, and in several treatises of Cicero and Plutarch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z This is all the direct external evidence available for the personal history of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The philosophical analysis, too, employed by Lucretius, impresses the mind with the conviction, that the poet is a profound thinker, and adds great force to his moral reflections. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The work of Lucretius, like the Æneid of Virgil, had not received the finishing hand of its author, at the period of his death. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Conscious that his undertaking hangs upon these chance conjunctions, Lucretius begins by invoking the powers he is about to describe, that they may give him breath and genius enough to describe them. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Mankind and this world have never been so sharply sifted or so sternly consoled, since Lucretius, as in Shakespeare’s tragedies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It is strange to note how inadequate an idea Lucretius had of the vastness and complexity of the problem which he professed to solve. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius having, by many arguments, endeavoured to establish the mortality of the soul, proceeds to exhort against a dread of death. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z He amassed together, without discrimination, the notes and conjectures on Lucretius, of all the scholars of his own and the preceding age. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z If we take the word nature in this sense, it may be said that Lucretius, more than any other man, is the poet of nature. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The occasional references to Roman history in Lucretius are evidently reminiscences of the Annales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The weakness of the system, interpreted by Lucretius, is the necessary weakness of the childhood of knowledge. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Most of the poets, however, who have painted the Golden Age, and Ovid in particular, have represented mankind as growing more vicious and unhappy with advance of time—Lucretius, more philosophically, as constantly improving. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Lucretius certainly can not be considered as one of the classics who have been most fortunate in their editors and commentators. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z There are two maxims in Lucretius that suffice, even to this day, to distinguish a thinker who is a naturalist from one who is not. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z These had some direct influence, as Dryden’s translation of them, accompanying his Virgil and Lucretius, may show. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Lucretius has occasionally to meet the first difficulty by the adoption of Graecisms, and the second by some sacrifice of artistic elegance. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius and Ovid have also frequently availed themselves of the works of Ennius. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It has been said, that such was the freedom and freshness of this performance, that unless previously informed as to the fact, no one could distinguish whether the Latin or Italian Lucretius was the original. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The soul that Lucretius calls material should not, then, be identified with consciousness, but with the ground of consciousness, which is at the same time the cause of life in the body. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The examples of Lucretius versifying philosophy in his Nature of Things, and that of Horace writing literary criticism in verse in his Art of Poetry, have been fruitful of mischief. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z As used by Lucretius, they add to our sense of the vividness of the book, of the constant personal address of the author, and of his ardent polemical tone. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This is that particular dictatorship which is exercised by Lucretius; who, though often in the wrong, yet seems to deal bona fide with his reader, and tells him nothing but what he thinks.... History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The editor, Deregni, indeed declares that he would not have ventured to publish any translation of Lucretius, however excellent, unless accompanied by this powerful antidote. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Against this instinctive horror of dying Lucretius has many brave arguments. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z One must also admire his broadmindedness in treating Lucretius, whom, in spite of his atheistic views, Keble places among the primary poets. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The poems of Lucretius and Catullus enable us, better perhaps than any other extant Latin works, to appreciate the most opposite capacities and tendencies of the Roman genius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The word Præsertim, in this beautiful passage, affords an illustration of what has been remarked above, that the kind of philosophical analysis employed by Lucretius gives great force to his moral reflections. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Most of the French translations of Lucretius are in prose. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z If they did, we should not be able to trace them, since we know nothing, or next to nothing, about Lucretius the man. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z He became an ardent preacher and expounder of the Stoic philosophy, just as Lucretius had thrown his whole heart into expounding the doctrine of Epicurus a hundred years before. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z The well-known statement of Jerome is to this effect,—'The poet Lucretius was born in the year 94 b.c. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The two leading tenets of Epicurus concerning the formation of the world and the mortality of the soul, are established by Lucretius in the first three books. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The earliest translation of Lucretius into the French language, was by Guillaume des Autels, about the middle of the sixteenth century. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Lucretius adopts the most radical and the most correct of those cosmological systems which the genius of early Greece had devised. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z His grand but obscure hexameters, after the example of Parmenides, delighted Lucretius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The union of an original and independent personality with the utmost sincerity of thought and speech is a characteristic in which Lucretius resembles Thucydides. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z With Lucretius and his subject it was totally the reverse. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The Abbé Morolles, already mentioned as the translator of Plautus and Terence, turned Lucretius into French prose: Of this version there were two editions, the first of which was printed in 1650. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Fancy what emotions those who lived in such a world would have felt on the day when a Democritus or a Lucretius revealed to them their actual situation. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Creech having had Success in Lucretius, was put upon translating Horace, and it is said by Dryden, that he might lose so much of his Reputation, as to prevent Rivalship. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z But Lucretius is much more than a type of the strong Roman qualities. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It is, however, with the second class of episodes—with declamations against luxury and vice—reflections on the beauty of virtue—and the delights of rural retirement, that Lucretius hath chiefly gemmed his verses. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Moliere having seen the first edition of Marolles’ prose translation, was thereby induced to render Lucretius into French verse. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Therefore Lucretius, who is nothing if not honest, is possessed by a profound melancholy. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z For many curious particulars relative to these articles, consult Mr. Delaval’s Inquiry concerning the Changes of Colours, etc.; to which may be added, Lucretius, lib. iv, 5. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Both speculatively and practically Cicero appears at a great disadvantage when compared with Lucretius in these respects. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The poem of Lucretius contains a full exposition of the theological, physical, and moral system of Epicurus. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z This abortive attempt of Moliere incited the Abbé Marolles to render the whole of Lucretius into verse. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z In treating of the soul and of immortality Lucretius is an imperfect psychologist and an arbitrary moralist. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z And in these negative elements the ideal of the Georgics coincides with that of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But it is in his grasp of speculative ideas, and in his application of them to interpret the living world, that the greatness of Lucretius as an imaginative thinker is most apparent. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In spite, however, of the powers of Lucretius, it was impossible, from the very nature of his subject, but that some portions would prove altogether unsusceptible of poetical embellishment. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z His translation is harsh, flat, and inverted; and it is also very diffuse: The poem of Lucretius consists of 7389 lines, and the version of not less than 12338615. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z And since genius must be ardent about something, Lucretius pours out his enthusiasm on Epicurus, who brought this deliverance and was the saviour of mankind. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z There are others however employed by Virgil, which Lucretius uses more sparingly or not at all. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The idea of law in Nature, as understood by Lucretius, is not, necessarily, inconsistent with that of a creative will determining the original conditions of the elemental substances. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In his sketch of the Golden Age, he has selected the favourable circumstances alluded to by Lucretius—exemption from war and sea voyages, and spontaneous production of fruits by the earth. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Lucretius was subsequently translated into prose by the Baron des Coutures. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z There is perhaps no important poem the antecedents of which can be traced so exhaustively as can those of the work of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Still less could Lucretius appeal to the associations of the popular religion. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Lucretius, on the other hand, saw the outward world as it looks in the light of day, neither glorified by the mystic colours of religion, nor concealed by the shadows of mythology. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The doctrines of Lucretius, particularly that which impugns the superintending care of Providence, were first formally opposed by the Stoic Manilius in his Astronomic poem. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Still, however, the poem of Lucretius was not much known in France during the seventeenth century, either in the original or translated form. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Suppose, however,—and it is a tenable supposition,—that Lucretius is quite wrong in his science, and that there is no space, no substance, and no nature. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The general superiority of Virgil’s art to that of Lucretius is equally apparent in his rhythm. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The poem, though incomplete in regard to the arrangement of its materials and artistic finish, presents a full and clear view of the philosophy accepted and expounded by Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Dr Drake wrote two essays, to announce and recommend the translation of Lucretius by his friend Mr Good. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Mr Good, in mentioning the various translations of Lucretius, does not allude to the production of La Grange, but speaks highly of the version of Le Blanc de Guillet. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Lucretius seizes on this happy accident and identifies the Venus of fable with the true Venus, the propitious power in all nature, of which Rome was indeed a crowning work. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Virgil produces more varied effects than Lucretius can do even in his more finished passages, while at the same time binding himself by stricter laws in the composition of his verse. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The insufficiency and audacity of human reason were reprobated by the antagonists of Lucretius as they often are in the present day. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z One of the dearest, perhaps the dearest friend of Lucretius, was this Memmius, who had been his school-fellow, and whom, it is supposed, he accompanied to Bithynia, when appointed to the government of that province431. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The first attempt to transfer the poem of Lucretius into the English language, was made by Evelyn, the celebrated author of the Sylva. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Poetic dominion over things as they are is seen best in Shakespeare for the ways of men, and in Lucretius for the ways of nature. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z And in this respect there is a marked difference between the genius of Virgil and of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Half a century from the death of Lucilius elapsed before the appearance of the poems of Lucretius and Catullus, which come next to be considered. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The poem of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, which he composed during the lucid intervals of his malady, is, as the name imports, philosophic and didactic, in the strictest acceptation of these terms. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Then follow a Life of Lucretius, and an Appendix to the Life, comprehending an analysis and defence of the system of Epicurus, with a comparative sketch of most other philosophical theories, both ancient and modern. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Lucretius, thinking he lived in such a world, heard the music of it, and wrote it down. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z However much the speculative activity of Lucretius is charged with feeling, yet the thought stands out, clearly defined, through the atmosphere surrounding it. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil These fragments prove that Lucretius had carefully studied the older poem, and adopted it as his model in using a poetical form and diction to expound his philosophical system. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Only a few fragments of his writings remain; from which, perhaps, it would be as unfair to judge him, as to estimate Lucretius by extracts from the physical portions of his poem. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Lucretius was a sounder Epicurean, and gave to the precepts of his master all the dignity and grace which poetical embellishment could bestow. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Lucretius knows very well that this distinction is moral only, or as people now say, subjective. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z In adopting modes of expression from Lucretius, Virgil brings down the bold creativeness of his original to a tone more suited to the habitual sobriety of the Italian imagination. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Even Lucretius, living in the very meridian of ancient science, cannot in imagination absolutely emancipate himself from the associations of mythology. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z If Lucretius has in any degree benefited by the works of Empedocles, he has in return been most lavish and eloquent in his commendations. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Wordsworth’s High Church Pantheism and Coleridge’s disquisitions on the Logos seem farther removed from the speculations of to-day than do the dreams of Lucretius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Even if this theory were accepted, however, it would not prove the point which Lucretius has chiefly at heart, namely, that an after-life is impossible. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z In Lucretius the feeling is identified with the general melancholy of his thought. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The substance and thought of Ennius, Lucretius, and Catullus, even when they reproduce Greek materials, appear to be more vivified by their own feeling than the substance and thought of the Augustan poets. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It is wonderful, however, how Lucretius contrives, by the beauty of his images, to give a picturesque colouring and illustration to the most unpromising topics. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z He was much influenced by Lucretius and had read Plato. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Indeed, the force of the great passage against the fear of death, at the end of the third book of Lucretius, comes chiefly from the picture it draws of the madness of life. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Again, the teleological view of Nature, which appears in the Georgics in antagonism to the teaching of Lucretius, in such passages as i. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Lucretius makes his personal presence felt through the whole march of his argument, and supports every position of his system not with his logic only, but with the whole force of his nature. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z If I am not mistaken, the distinguishing character of Lucretius—I mean, of his soul and genius—is a certain kind of noble pride, and positive assertion of his own opinions. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Poor Lucretius! the disease of which thou didst expire was "enthusiasm." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 All that Lucretius urges about the divisibility of the soul, its diffused bodily seat, and the perils it would meet outside fails to remove the ominous possibility that troubles him. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Virgil is much more sparing than Lucretius in the proems to his other books. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Didactic poetry obtained in Lucretius and Virgil ampler volume and profounder meaning than in their Greek models, Empedocles and Hesiod. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This leads Lucretius to enlarge on the mischievous effects of illicit love; and nothing can be finer than the various moral considerations which he enforces, to warn us against the snares of guilty passion. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Lucretius was certainly not a solitary member of his order. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius These reflections are impressive, and they are enforced by Lucretius with his usual vividness and smack of reality. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z And the whole feeling of the passage is in harmony with that in Lucretius, ii. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But while Lucretius is the ardent admirer of contemplative and imaginative greatness, it is greatness in action and character which moves the admiration of Ennius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This introduces the celebrated account of the plague, which ravaged Athens during the Peloponnesian war, with which Lucretius concludes this book, and his magnificent poem. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z But the force of Roman superstition had endlessly multiplied since the days of Lucretius. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius I am no specialist in the study of Lucretius; I am not a Dante scholar nor a Goethe scholar. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Many circumstances conduced to bring Virgil, more powerfully than any other Latin poet, under the spell of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Ennius, like Lucretius, seems to deny the providence of the gods. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z After this Valerius called together the great assembly of the centuries, and they chose Spurius Lucretius, father of Lucretius, to succeed Brutus. Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) Lucretius, whose mission it was to liberate men from the terrors of old Latin and Etrurian superstition, was not contending against an imaginary foe. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Lucretius, a poet of universal nature, studied everything in its truth. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z He thus, by greater selection and elimination of his materials, avoids the monotony and the long prosaic interspaces between the grander bursts of poetry which his vast argument imposes on Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Another point in which there is some affinity between Ennius and Lucretius is their religious temper and convictions. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z After this, he handed the knife to Collatinus, next to Lucretius and Valerius, all amazed at Brutus and perplexed to account for his new spirit of authority. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men It deals with such subjects as we meet with in the poem of Lucretius, thunder and lightning, winds and earthquakes, and rising and failing springs. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius To the picture which Lucretius sketches of primitive civilization, we might add the whole history of mankind. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The vastness as well as the abstract character of his subject forces Lucretius to pass through many regions which seem equally removed from this genial presence and from all human associations. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil There is indeed no trace in Ennius of the rigid intellectual consistency of Lucretius, nor in Lucretius any sympathy with those mystic speculations which Ennius derived from the lore attributed to Pythagoras. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Of these also Lucretius gives us a specimen; and they accord in form and complexion with that doctrine about duty and responsibility, which he so bitterly hates and loathes. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent But it has perhaps less of the scientific spirit than Lucretius, according to our modern standards. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Such would have been the method of Lucretius; he would have passed imaginatively from the landscape to the sources of the landscape; he would have disclosed the poetry of matter, not of spirit. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The secret of the power of Lucretius as an interpreter of Nature lies in his recognition of the sublimity of natural law in ordinary phenomena. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil These dreams of the imagination may not have been without effect in enabling Ennius to escape from the gloom which 'eclipsed the brightness of the world' to Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z To them Religion is a mere yoke, as Lucretius describes it; not a satisfaction or refuge, but a terror and a superstition. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Lucretius, Lucan, and Ovid, all made use of this interesting insect for figures in their poetry. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time For this reason Lucretius, who sees human life and human idealism in their natural setting, has a saner and maturer view of both than has Wordsworth, for all his greater refinement. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Some of these passages have been suggested by parallel passages either in Hesiod or Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The real bent of his mind, as revealed in his higher poetry, is grave and intense, like that of Lucretius or Milton. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Dante's eye was free and open to external nature in a degree new among poets; certainly in a far greater degree than among the Latins, even including Lucretius, whom he probably had never read. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. You will accuse me of wanting to bury and forget Aristotle and Plato, Heraclitus and Lucretius, and so forth and so on. The Salvaging Of Civilisation The sublime poem of Lucretius, expounding the least poetical of philosophies, proves this point beyond a doubt. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The love of Nature in Lucretius appears apart from local associations. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil This truly Roman quality of style, depending on a strong imaginative sense of reality, is one of the great elements of power in the language of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The English version of the lines of Lucretius is from Busby's translation. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments This doctrine of Lucretius, though antagonistic to the popular religion, is not atheistic or pantheistic; it is not definite enough to be theistic. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes Yet Lucretius was far from exhausting the inspiration which a poet might draw from materialism. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The mind of Virgil is not possessed, as the mind of Lucretius was possessed, by the thought of the immensity of her sphere and the universality of her presence. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil He dabbled in poetry himself, and he was more nearly of the same age as Lucretius, and thus perhaps more likely to have been a friend of his. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Hence Lucretius says, The Magnet's name the observing Grecians drew From the Magnetick region where it grew. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Hesiod's Works and Days supplied a partial model, and the influence of Lucretius was powerful. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes It foreshadows, and accurately defines, the whole transition from antiquity to the middle age, from naturalism to supernaturalism, from Lucretius to Dante. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The contrast between Lucretius and Virgil, as regards their relation to the ancient mythology, has already appeared in the examination of the Invocations to their respective poems. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It might be said, generally, that the argument of Lucretius was an attempt to give a philosophical description of Nature before the advent of physical science. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Its source and matrix is less the love of life than the fear of death—that fear which Lucretius, dour poet of disillusion, so nobly deplored. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' only work, left at his death unfinished, is a didactic poem in six books which aims to give an explanation of the origin and nature of the universe. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes Lucretius was too literal, positivistic, and insistent for such a delicate task. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Though the poem of Lucretius is inscribed to Memmius, it is really dedicated to the glory of Epicurus. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Lucretius makes a copious, and often a very happy use, of analogies, both in the illustration of his philosophy, and in passages of the highest poetical power. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z "If I was C�sar, or Lucretius, or Nebuchadnezzar, I couldn't be prouder," said Billy, as he looked down the board. The Fortunes Of Glencore Lucretius thinks of the earth as at rest in the centre of our system,— or mundus,—surrounded by the air in which move the moon and the sun. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes In Lucretius, on the other hand, zeal is mightier than sympathy, and scorn mightier than humour. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Some other elements in Virgil’s ideal Lucretius too would have ranked among the supreme sources of human happiness. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil A few out of many erroneous assertions about physical facts, in regard to some of which the opinions of Lucretius are behind the science even of his own time, may be noticed. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Did space permit, we might cite the theories of Lucretius as a strange anticipation of the development hypothesis. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs The heaping up of substantives without a copula is not uncommon in Lucretius. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes Lucretius studies superstition, but only as an enemy; and the naturalistic poet should be the enemy of nothing. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Virgil is no mere disciple of Lucretius, either as regards his philosophy or his art. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The work of Lucretius reminds us of the intensity of thought and feeling, the clearness and minuteness of observation, with which the earliest enquiries into Nature were carried on. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Have we now escaped the inert and self-absorbed deity of Lucretius, only to fall into the palsying grasp of the tyrannous deity of Calvin? The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Its so-called philosophers, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Lucretius, produced no essentially new principle. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Faust is, then, no philosophical poem, after an open or deliberate fashion; and yet it offers a solution to the moral problem of existence as truly as do the poems of Lucretius and Dante. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Virgil’s conception of Nature has its immediate origin in the thought of Lucretius; his religious convictions and national sentiment derive new strength by reaction from the attitude of his predecessor. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The school of philosophy to which Lucretius belonged was distinguished above other schools for the attention which it gave to the facts of Nature. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Thus Lucretius conceived of the absolute Being as by the necessity of its nature entirely outside our system. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus There are three marked divisions in this period, each with a distinct character of its own: the first represented by Lucretius and Catullus, the second by Virgil and Horace, the last by Ovid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The emotions which Lucretius associated with his atoms and void, with his religious denials and his abstentions from action, are emotions necessarily involved in life. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Again, in regard to the technical execution of his work, rhythm and expression, Virgil inherited the new wealth introduced into Latin literature by Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In no ancient writer do we find the certainty and universality of law more emphatically and unmistakably expressed than in Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Dryden's rendering of Chaucer is a totally distinct operation from his Englishing of Virgil—Homer—Lucretius—Juvenal—Ovid. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 It is to the effect that he regarded Lucretius and Catullus as the two greatest poets of his own time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Similarly, even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Lucretius had given to the Latin Hexameter a stronger and more unimpeded flow, a more sonorous and musical intonation than it had before his time. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It is in keeping with the isolated and independent position which Lucretius occupies in literature, that so little is known of his life. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Dryden dashed at every poet—Theocritus, Lucretius, Persius, Horace, Juvenal, Ovid, Virgil, Homer—each in his turn unhesitatingly doth he take into his translating hands. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 "You desert Lucretius for Pink Roses and now you don't even gather the rose-buds." Years of Plenty Lucretius was undoubtedly a philosophical poet; his whole poem is devoted to expounding and defending a system of philosophy. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z And even this identity or analogy between the life of Nature and of man is not conceived with such power and passion in Virgil as in Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil This criticism on Lucretius is not only quite just from Cicero's point of view, but it is most pointed. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius's magnificent opening has invited Dryden to put forth his happiest strength. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Here am I, a scholar of a college, deserting Lucretius for that funny little person! Years of Plenty But the step taken by Greek physics, and by the poetry of Lucretius, passes beyond. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z These resources and instruments have been considered in relation to and contrast with those employed by Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil If the poem of Lucretius adds nothing to the knowledge of scientific facts, it throws a powerful light on one phase of the ancient mind. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius is a poet of a sublimer order than Dryden. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 He treated the Alexandrine of Corneille exactly as Pope treated the decasyllable of Dryden, and as Virgil treated the hexameter of Lucretius. A Short History of French Literature The only answer that concerns us here is that given by Lucretius; an answer he accepted from Epicurus, his master in everything, who in turn had accepted it from Democritus. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z In that which is Virgil’s strength, sympathy with the primary human affections, it would have been impossible for any poet who came after them to have surpassed Homer, Sophocles, or Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil There is always poetry and pathos in the satire of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In both, if in different measure, a sceptical vein is inherent; but in Lucretius this arms itself in logic, and he appears in his cosmogony as a philosophical atheist. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Lucretius complains of the misery produced upon them by the terrors of the anticipated Tartarus. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Horace, usually so much slighter than Lucretius, is less cursory here. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Lucretius further regards this state of things, so far from being remediable by man, as necessarily becoming worse. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Cicero, however, is a better witness than Lucretius of the actual state of opinion among his educated contemporaries. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius pleads his philosophy like a man who is incredulous in earnest. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 An exception among the poets of his time was Lucretius, who combined the spirit of a poet with that of a religious teacher. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. The maxim of Lucretius, that nothing arises save by the death of something else, meets us still in our crawling immortality. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z But the lesson inculcated by Virgil is directly opposite to that state of quietism and pure contemplation in which Lucretius finds the ideal of human life. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The meaning of Lucretius can never be mistaken from any ambiguity in his language. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z His criticism on Lucretius is characteristic of them both. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 In the rest of surviving Latin didactic poetry, the influence and the imitation of Virgil and Lucretius are manifest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" To the genius of Goethe he must add that of Lucretius and Dante. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The signs of coming things are represented, not as Lucretius would have represented them, as natural antecedents or concomitants of the things portended, but as arbitrary indications appointed for the guidance of man. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil As the imagination of Lucretius is immeasurably more poetical, so is his spirit immeasurably more reverential than that of Epicurus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The turn of his verses he has likewise followed in those places where Lucretius has most laboured, and some of his very lines he has transplanted into his own works, without much variation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 It was old Sariette, who in tones as plaintive as the wail of the November wind began to beg for his Lucretius. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Turn to Lucretius, and the difference is striking. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z And this too is Virgil’s doctrine: and it was to give that guidance which Lucretius, though he discerned the evil, did not supply, that the didactic directions of the Georgics were given. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Yet the genius of Lucretius and of Horace expressed these doctrines in tones of dignity and beauty, which have been denied to more ennobling truths. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius, Vergil, and the triumvirs of love were unmarried. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The fearsome reader who caused me such terrible anxiety never grew weary of this Lucretius and made it his bedside book, as it were. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels It is necessary to revert from Lucretius to Goethe to get at the volume of life. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Virgil also accepts the idea that the earth once was more productive than it is323, but he accepts it in the spirit of Hesiod rather than of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Although no new principle or maxim of conduct appears in his teaching, the view of human life presented by Lucretius was really something new in the world. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z When she gave birth, it was to a litter of monsters, by accident to a genius, again to a poet, to Cæsar and to Lucretius, the only men of letters ever born within her walls. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The following night twenty volumes left their places, among them the Lucretius of Prior de Vendôme. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels So, too, if we rise from Lucretius to Dante, there is much left behind which we cannot afford to lose. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z His language appears indeed inferior not only to that of Lucretius and Catullus but even to that of Ennius in reproducing the first vivid impressions of things upon the mind. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Partly too, as was said in a former chapter, this new aspect of Epicureanism in Lucretius may be attributed to the reaction of his nature from the confusion of the times in which he lived. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius bears testimony to the truth of this in the vivid picture he draws of the extravagancies which characterized the festival of Cybele. Roman Women Monsieur Sariette was seized with the sudden suspicion that it was he who had taken the Lucretius to use as a missile and he ordered him, in threatening tones, to give it back. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Experience appears in Lucretius, not as each man comes upon it in his own person, but as the scientific observer views it from without. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Lucretius expresses a similar enthusiasm for Homer, Ennius, Empedocles, and Epicurus; and by Virgil the same feeling is, though not directly expressed, yet profoundly felt towards Homer and Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Lucretius is more alive to the dangers of pampering the body and enervating the mind. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The lover of the great Epicurean poem of Lucretius on the 'Nature of Things' will often be surprised to find here the source of many among the Roman poet's most striking doctrines and images. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 He repented having said all this when young d'Esparvieu asked him for the loan of the precious Lucretius. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Goethe is the poet of life; Lucretius the poet of nature; Dante the poet of salvation. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z But it is a little remarkable that, while reproducing the language and cadences of both these poets in his first acknowledged work, Virgil never mentions the name either of Lucretius or Catullus. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But no writer of antiquity is less of an idealist than Lucretius: there is no writer, ancient or modern, whose words are more truthful and unvarnished. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The author, however, shows an acquaintance with Latin poets—Horace, Virgil, Lucretius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" He raised them to the lock and withdrew them again immediately and suggested that Maurice should have the common Lucretius published by Garnier. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels So, too, in what is forbidden us, Lucretius sees only generalities,—the folly of passion, the blight of superstition. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z The later poetical style of Rome never regains the lucidity and volume which it has in Lucretius, or the ease and sparkling flow of Catullus. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil To this question Lucretius distinctly answers, that the senses are the foundation of all our knowledge.18 They are our 'prima fides': the basis not only of all sound inference, but of all human conduct. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Was it Seneca or Lucretius—no, Havard—who said that perseverance is a virtue 'that plucks success Even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.' The Song of the Wolf But Amédée, seeing the Lucretius on the table, innocently put it into the bag with the others, and took it away without Monsieur Sariette's perceiving it. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels It is true that taken formally, and in respect to their type of philosophy and imagination, Dante is on a higher plane than Lucretius, and Lucretius on a higher plane than Goethe. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z It is this capacity in the imagination of being vitally interested in and possessed by its object, which enabled Lucretius to breathe the breath of enduring life into the dry bones of the atomic philosophy. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Of one aspect of this intellectual life Lucretius is the most complete exponent. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Curate.—And in the structure of his sentences, and says, “How simple in comparison are Catullus and Lucretius.” Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 It was only the next morning when he entered the abode of the Philosophers and Globes that he remembered the Lucretius. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Now there is a great deal, a very great deal, in Goethe that Lucretius does not know of. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z But in these parts of his works Virgil has not revealed himself with such distinctness and consistency as Lucretius has done in his great philosophical poem. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Lucretius does not enforce his moral teaching on the systematic plan on which his physical philosophy is discussed. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He adopts to a great extent the tone and style of Lucretius, in his explanation of the phenomena of the mountain. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions And he dropped the Lucretius into his jacket pocket. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels These possibilities may tempt future poets to describe them; but meantime, if we wish to have a vision of nature not fundamentally false, we must revert from Dante to Lucretius. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z In the case of others, notably of Lucretius, there is no hint whatever of the existence of any such evidence. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil There is no necessary connexion between the atomic theory of philosophy, and that view of the end and objects of life which Lucretius derived from Epicurus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He adopted the scientific opinions of Epicurus, as established in Rome by Lucretius, and was more immediately a disciple of Seneca. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions He had discovered the Lucretius of the Prior de Vendôme, his Lucretius, and he was clasping it to his bosom. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels The day is past when Santeul gained for himself a reputation by his Latin verse, and when Cardinal de Polignac refuted Lucretius in his own tongue. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. The personality of Lucretius was simpler and more forcible: the passion to utter his strong convictions prevailed in him over all considerations of art. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But there is a wide difference between ordinary Epicureanism and that solemn view of human life which was revealed to the world in the poem of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We have already seen to what extent Lucretius attributed the eruptions to air pent up within the interior caverns of the mountains. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions And it was due in particular to the solemn dignity with which he declaimed six lines of Lucretius, setting forth the Epicurean view that the gods do not concern themselves with human affairs. Studies in Contemporary Biography It reads as follows: Twenty pairs of gladiators, at the expense of Decimus, a priest, and ten pairs of gladiators, at the expense of Lucretius, will fight at Pompeii on the eleventh of April. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise The Georgics, again, show a careful study and assimilation of the thought and language of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Epicureanism, in its original form, was the expression of a character as unlike as possible to that of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z That was much later, after Lucretius, in putting Epicurus into verse, had declared religion to be the mother of sin. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The Romans at this time had no manuals of philosophy or any philosophical writings in Latin apart from the poem of Lucretius and some unskilful productions by obscure Epicureans. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Lucretius too had much poetical talent; but his work evinces that his miserable philosophy was rather the result of a bewildered judgement than a corrupt heart. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The direct force of language in Homer or Lucretius never can become trite or common-place. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The spirit in which Lucretius contemplated the world was different from that of any other man of antiquity; especially different from that of his master in philosophy. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Evelyn ought to have known his Lucretius, the first book of which he translated and which he was only prevented from completing by some foolish scruples which Jeremy Taylor wisely but vainly combated. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing The doctrine of Lucretius is to a certain extent similar, but is sterner and more intellectual in its form. Memoirs of Life and Literature He half-ruined himself by his splendid edition of Lucretius, which could never obtain even common patronage from the opulent friends of classical literature. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors In no writers is this quality more conspicuous than in Cicero and in Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Hence it is that the tones of Lucretius might in many places be mistaken for those of a Stoic rather than an Epicurean. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z And Lucretius is fond of vis as meaning "quality" or "faculty." A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing I have further published, besides my little book on Cyprus, two short volumes of verse, and a poem of which I shall speak presently, called Lucretius on Life and Death. Memoirs of Life and Literature Reviewer thinks that the first stage was in tone like Lucretius, i.e. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion In Lucretius this feeling inspires his passionate revolt against the ancient religions. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Perhaps, too, in the positive good at which he aimed, the spirit of Lucretius was more that of a Stoic than he imagined. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The great philosophical poets, like Lucretius, try to solve the riddles. Whitman A Study This work is a poem called "Lucretius on Life and Death," and was partly suggested by the vogue acquired by Fitzgerald's rendering of the Rub�iy�t of Omar Khayyam. Memoirs of Life and Literature Of late, however, the danger is rather that the reaction should go too far and lead to a promiscuous depreciation even of such real giants as Lucretius or Plato. My Autobiography A Fragment Virgil’s life was as much one of pure contemplation or absorption in his art, as that of Lucretius or Wordsworth. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Lucretius, though animated by an ardent spirit of proselytism, does not desire that Memmius should forget his duties as a citizen and statesman. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z But Epicurus seems to have worked out the Atomic Theory more in detail, as we have it expounded in Lucretius' magnificent poem. Five Stages of Greek Religion So Lycurgus did honour to Sparta, in giving the first compleat Edition of Homer; and Cicero, to Rome, in correcting the Works of Lucretius. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Lucretius, for instance, did not deny the existence of the gods; he merely asserted that they no longer concerned themselves with human affairs, which he was heartily glad of, as they were mostly bad characters. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) In Virgil the feeling is both general as in Lucretius, and combined with attachment to or interest in particular places as in Horace. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Some of the greatest of modern poets, such as Dante, Milton, and Wordsworth, have manifested a feeling similar to that expressed by Ennius and Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We may compare the rapturous phrases of Lucretius. Five Stages of Greek Religion What Coleridge claims for the Bible may be claimed for all imaginative and passionate literature. �schylus, Lucretius, Dante, Milton; how does the Bible excel these in that respect? Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Epicurus said that or, if he did not, Lucretius said it for him. The Paliser case Lucretius uses poetry as the vehicle of science, Virgil as the instrument of a useful art. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil He thus seems to stand midway between the spiritual aspirations of Empedocles and the negation of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He set man free, as Lucretius says, from the 'burden of Religion', though his doctrine of the 'blessed Being' which neither has pain nor gives pain, enables him to elude the dangerous accusation of atheism. Five Stages of Greek Religion To make this a perfect luncheon dish a starch is wanting; we have therefore added sliced raw potatoes and cooked with the rest, to make it a balanced meal, by way of improving upon Lucretius. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Just a little before the time of Christ the Latin poet, Lucretius, wrote a poem on "The Nature of Things." The Meaning of Evolution Of the resources of learned allusion Lucretius makes a singularly sparing use. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil A similar tenderness is found in union with the grave tones of Pacuvius and Accius, and in still greater measure with the fortitude of Lucretius and the majesty of Virgil. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius, writing 250 years later, appears to vary hardly in any detail from the doctrines of the Master, and Diogenes of Oenoanda, 500 years later, actually repeats his letters and sayings word for word. Five Stages of Greek Religion I bargained with S—— for a new version of Lucretius, to publish against Tonson's, agreeing to pay the author so many shillings at his producing so many lines. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges His first education was received at the town of Cremona, and the larger city of Milan, and he was at the former place in his sixteenth year on the day when the poet Lucretius died. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Virgil, as in other passages, compresses into a few lines the thought which Lucretius with simpler art follows through all its detail of concrete reality. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The strong testimony of Lucretius is alone sufficient to establish the fame of Ennius as a man of remarkable force and genius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius held that the universe originated from a fortuitous concourse of ——s. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Donatus, in his life of Vergil, tells us that Lucretius died on the day on which Vergil assumed the toga virilis, Oct. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight There is something about 'previously demented' in some Latin chap—Virgil or Lucretius—that seems to hit the nail on the head. Oswald Bastable and Others But the ideal of Virgil’s imagination, on its positive side, is more on the ordinary human level than that of lonely contemplation in accordance with which Lucretius lived and wrote. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Against the arbitrary and cruel power, supposed to be exercised by the Gods, Lucretius proclaimed internecine war. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We have, indeed, the poem of Lucretius, and it is admitted that it contains fine passages. The Life of Cicero Volume II. Book IV gives Lucretius’ theory of vision and the nature of dreams and apparitions. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Wakefield, I believe, always regretted that the first edition of Lucretius had not been earlier inspected by him. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance The Virgilian ideal, like that of Lucretius, recognised a heart at peace and independent of Fortune as a greater source of happiness than any external good. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil There may be some anticipation of the spirit of Rousseau in Virgil, and still more in Tibullus, but none whatever in Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z But you shall not find it to be so with Cæsar, or Lucretius, or with Virgil. The Life of Cicero Volume II. It is interesting to point to places 315 in which Lucretius or his predecessors had really anticipated modern scientific research. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Wakefield, I believe always regretted that the first edition of Lucretius had not been earlier inspected by him. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance He often fixes into the form of some general thought what appears in Lucretius as a living movement or individualised action. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil It remains to consider the poem of Lucretius as a work of literary art and genius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The first writer who expounds the notion with sufficient breadth of view and sufficiently accurate and concrete observation to provide a preliminary sketch was the great Roman poet, Lucretius. Introduction to the Science of Sociology ‘The language of Lucretius, so bold, so genial, so powerful, and in its way so perfect.’ Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Our information about Lucretius’ life is very scanty. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Even Lucretius, who stands apart from the general traditional beliefs of his countrymen, begins his poem with the words ‘Aeneadum genetrix.’ The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The poetical style of Lucretius is, like his rhythm, a true and powerful symbol of his genius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The first clear description of the history of mankind as a progression by various stages, from a condition of primitive savagery to civilization, is in Lucretius' great poem De Rerum Natura. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The details of his subject Vergil draws mainly from his Greek predecessors, Hesiod, Xenophon, Aratus, and Nicander, but it is to Lucretius he is chiefly indebted. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight As regards Lucretius’ madness, there is no absolute impossibility in the story. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors In considering the influence of the ideas of Lucretius on the mind of Virgil, we must accordingly make large allowance for the medium of alien sympathies, personal, social, and political, through which they were refracted. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The periods of Virgil delight us by their intricate harmony; those of Lucretius impress us by their continuous and hurrying impetus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z But Lucretius does not conceive this progress will continue. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The language of Lucretius, so bold, so genial, so powerful, and in its way so perfect, is echoed a thousand times in the Georgics.’—Nettleship. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Lucretius may refer to his recollection of the civil wars in v. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors He receives and applies the complete ideas of Lucretius, but he does not follow them with the eagerness of their author through the various phases of their development. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Virgil's movement displays the majesty of grace and serenity; that of Lucretius the majesty of power, and largeness of mind. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Lucretius, the only poet of this school, extolled them in splendid verse whose motif he borrowed from Homer's description of Olympus. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity The name Lucretius suggests that he was descended from one of the most ancient patrician houses of Rome, famous in the early annals of the Republic. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight The references to Lucretius by name are few. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors This idea of the need of a struggle with Nature, latent under all the special precepts of the Georgics, is thus seen to arise out of the philosophical thought of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The lines at ii. 352-366, describing the cow searching for her calf, which has been sacrificed at the altar, combine many characteristics of the poetical style of Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z And yet it was just at that period Rome had inherited from Greece the Philosophy of the Epicureans and that of the Sceptics and was maturing the poem of Lucretius Carus! My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) |
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