 Lucretius, nobler than his mood, Who dropped his plummet down the broad Deep universe and said " No God — " Finding no bottom : he denied Divinely the divine, and died Chief poet on the Tiber-side...  Popular Science Monthly - Page 1661902Full view - About this book
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1910 - 184 pages
...superior to that of any writer of the Augustan age.' And Mrs. Browning in A Vision of Poets says : He denied Divinely the divine, and died Chief poet on the Tiber-side. Another great asset possessed by Lucretius is the imaginative insight and exuberant originality with... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1916 - 692 pages
...Lucretius — nobler than his mood ; Who dropped his plummet down the broad Deep universe, and said ' No God,' Finding no bottom : he denied Divinely the divine,...spite of scorn, To teach a truth he would not learn. And Ossian, dimly seen or guessed : Once counted greater than the rest, When mountain-winds blew out... | |
 | 1917 - 1016 pages
...date of this Epistle by Lucretius, who Dropped his plummet down the broad Deep universe, and said " No God." Finding no bottom, he denied Divinely the Divine, and died, Chief poet of the Tiber side, By grace of God. This statement in Hebrews might have been written as a direct challenge... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - 1919 - 432 pages
...lines on Lucretius are better : Who dropped his plummet down the broad Deep universe and said, " No God — " Finding no bottom : he denied Divinely the divine, and died Chief poet on the Tiber-side. And this, from " Lady Geraldine's Courtship," written before she had met the poet, is good — Or from... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1919 - 320 pages
...Lucretius — nobler than his mood : Who dropped his plummet down the broad Deep universe, and said, " No God," Finding no bottom: he denied Divinely the divine, and died Chief poet on the Tiber-side.' Tennyson showed his love of him by his frequent imitations, and by his poem on him, though he chose... | |
 | 1920 - 90 pages
..."Lucretius, better than his mood, Dropped his plimmet down the broad deep universe, and said; "There is no God. Finding no bottom he denied divinely the divine, and died, Chief poet of the Tiber-side by Grace of God." At least Mr. Ingersol was, we may believe, honest with himself.... | |
 | John Wight Duff - 1923 - 718 pages
...point of art to their Augustan successors.* Mrs. Browning stands for Lucretius in A Vision of Poett — He denied Divinely the divine, and died Chief poet on the Tiber-side. Virgil has never lacked champions. Yet to essay the assignment to the very great of their exact grade... | |
 | Lily Adams Beck - 1925 - 402 pages
...no longer." Yes, young no longer. Youth, for both of them, had died in youth. CHAPTEE XXV THE NIGHT "By grace of God his face is stern, As one compelled in spite of scorn To teach a truth he would n<?t learn." — E. BABBETT BBOWNING. So, knowing there was a promise never to be broken, he sailed... | |
 | Lily Adams Beck - 1925 - 380 pages
...longer. Youth, for both of them, had died in youth. CHAPTER XXV THE NIGHT "By grace of God his faco is stern, As one compelled in spite of scorn To teach a truth he would not learn." — E. BABBETT BBOWNIKQ. So, knowing there was a promise never to be broken, he sailed for Greece,... | |
 | Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie - 2007
...Barrett Browning projects him as one 'nobler than his mood', who 'denied Divinely the divine' but whose 'Face is stern, As one compelled, in spite of scorn, To teach a truth he would not learn'. This shift in focus to Lucretius as a tragic personality is dependent on his philosophy rather than... | |
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