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Page viii
... that the search of nature was as free to him as to Lucretius , who at his age explained it according to the principles of Epicurus . In his eighth Eclogue , he has in- novated nothing ; the former part of it being the OF THE PASTORALS .
... that the search of nature was as free to him as to Lucretius , who at his age explained it according to the principles of Epicurus . In his eighth Eclogue , he has in- novated nothing ; the former part of it being the OF THE PASTORALS .
Page lx
... amazed that shepherds should thunder out , as he expresses him- self , the formation of the world , and that too ac- cording to the system of Epicurus . " In truth , " says he , page 176 , " I cannot tell 1x PREFACE TO THE PASTORALS .
... amazed that shepherds should thunder out , as he expresses him- self , the formation of the world , and that too ac- cording to the system of Epicurus . " In truth , " says he , page 176 , " I cannot tell 1x PREFACE TO THE PASTORALS .
Page lxii
... Epicurus . He was too well seen in antiquity to commit such a gross mistake ; there is not the least mention of chance in that whole pas- sage , nor of the clinamen principiorum , so peculiar to Epicurus's hypothesis . Virgil had not ...
... Epicurus . He was too well seen in antiquity to commit such a gross mistake ; there is not the least mention of chance in that whole pas- sage , nor of the clinamen principiorum , so peculiar to Epicurus's hypothesis . Virgil had not ...
Page lxiii
... Thus much will make it probable at least , that Vir- gil had Moses in his thoughts rather than Epicurus , when he composed this poem . But it is further remarkable , that this passage was taken from a song PREFACE TO THE PASTORALS . Ixiii.
... Thus much will make it probable at least , that Vir- gil had Moses in his thoughts rather than Epicurus , when he composed this poem . But it is further remarkable , that this passage was taken from a song PREFACE TO THE PASTORALS . Ixiii.
Page 74
... yet enough to make them happy : they would have more , and laid in , to make their solitude luxurious : -a wretch- ed philosophy , which Epicurus never taught them in his garden . They loved the prospect of 74 DEDICATION.
... yet enough to make them happy : they would have more , and laid in , to make their solitude luxurious : -a wretch- ed philosophy , which Epicurus never taught them in his garden . They loved the prospect of 74 DEDICATION.
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