It was dangerous territory in that sense, for Lucretius is a passionate and persuasive adversary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

She throws open the flood-gates of her heart as in words recalling Lucretius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

Do not you believe that twenty name Lucretius because of the poetic commencement of his books, for five that wade through his philosophy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

"Lucretius" takes us once more into the classic period.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference

Would he point to what atheism may lead -- he gives us 'Lucretius'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

Dr. Mason Good translated "Lucretius" while riding to visit his patients in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

Among the best (I often linger over them again and again) are "Lucretius," "The Lotos Eaters," and "The Northern Farmer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

The fine picture in the text of the gods of Epicurus was no doubt immediately suggested by 'Lucretius', iii., 15 'seq.', while the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

For Lucretius 'appreciation of Ennius see Lucr. i.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Drusus has had notice of prosecution by Lucretius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference

Dryden measures himself with Juvenal, Lucretius, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

Our information about Lucretius 'life is very scanty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Lucretius, according to Voltaire, denied design in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880] Reference

Memmius is the only contemporary mentioned by Lucretius; i.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

J.A. addresses Lucretius in lines prefixed to Creech's translation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Theories of Translation] Reference

Lucretius, and the more recent conception of the Vortex Atom of Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aether and Gravitation] Reference

Lucretius may refer to his recollection of the civil wars in v. 999.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Virgil is allowed to be a servile copyist, far inferior to Lucretius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

In the passage of Lucretius (ii. 114) which Virgil has imitated here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Lucretius is in the highest, and Virgil in a very high sense, a creator.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

As regards Lucretius 'madness, there is no absolute impossibility in the story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

Cæsonia; Lucretius too, according to some authors, fell a sacrifice to the same folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

Epicurean Lucretius expresses it, "to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed at sea.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

For Lucretius had limed the wings of his swift spirit in the dregs of the sensible world; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Lucretius in a famous passage stated the contemplative ideal, contrasting it with its opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

Lucretius, Shakespeare, and Goethe express the most universal concepts of ethics or metaphysics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) was a native of Italy, whose birth is said to have occurred B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

Or consider the passion with which Lucretius argues for a naturalistic conception of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference