Creation: A Philosophical Poem Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God. In Seven Books |
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adverſe affert Anaxagoras arife Atheists Atomes Caufe Cauſe Chance chuſe Chyle compoſe Courſe Deity Deſign deſign'd determin'd diff'rent diſplay diſplay'd Divine Earth endu'd Epicurus Eternal ev'ry expreſs fame fince fing firſt Flood flow fome Force form'd Frame fubvert fuch Glebe Globe Heav'n Heav'nly Honour Immenſe Ionic School Irreligion juſt Labour Laws leſs Leucippus Libertines Light Lucretians Lucretius Maſs Mind moſt Motion move muſt Nature Nature's ne'er Neceffity never Number o'er Obſerve paſs Perſons Philoſophers plain pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Poems Pow'r Principles purſue Race raiſe Rays Reaſon Religion reſpect reſt rife riſe ſay Scheme ſecret ſee Senſe ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſhow ſince Skies ſmall ſome ſpacious Spiritus intus alit ſpread ſtand ſtay ſtill ſtray ſtrong ſuch ſwelling ſwift Syſtem tell themſelves theſe Things thoſe thro Univerſe uſe various vaſt Veins Vigour whence whoſe wife Winds wondrous World
Popular passages
Page xliii - How his unvary'd labour he repeats, Returns at morning, and at eve retreats; And by the distribution of his light, Now gives to man the day, and now the night: Night, when the...
Page viii - This likewife has been often objected to the deifts of fhe prefent times, that at leaft a great part of them only conceal their notions under that name, while they are really to be numbered among the atheifts. I have before exprefled my reafons, why I cannot embrace this opinion.
Page lxxxix - For heaven his ensigns treacherous displays, Declares for God, while he that God betrays; For whom he's pleas'd such evidence to bring, As saves the name, while it subverts the thing. Now hear his labour'd scheme of impious...
Page 15 - He'd sure destruction to the earth produce ; One half for heat, and one for cold, would pray; This would abhor the night, and that the day: Did he not yearly through the zodiac pass, Were he not constant to his daily race, He would not, by alternate shade and light...
Page 43 - tis plain I have not always been, I ask, from whence my being could begin ? I did not to myself existence give, Nor from myself the secret power receive, By which I reason, and by which I live.
Page xxiv - For want of cement strong enough to bind The structure fast, huge ribs of rock disjoin'd Without an earthquake, from their base would start, And hills unhing'd from their deep roots depart. And while our orb perform'd its daily race, All beings found upon its ample face Would, by that motion dissipated, fly Whirl'd from the globe, and scatter through the They must, obedient to mechanic laws, [sky.
Page lii - But the base brier and the noble vine Their arms around their stronger neighbour twine . The creeping ivy, to prevent its fall, Clings with its fibrous grapples to the wall.
Page 54 - heart conveys the refluent blood. It was to thee, great Stagyrite, unknown, And thy preceptor of divine renown. Learning did ne'er this secret truth impart To the Greek masters of the healing art. 'Twas by the Coan's piercing eye unview'd And did attentive Galen's search elude.
Page xliii - And on the sapphire spreads a heav'nly blue ; For the proud monarch's dazzling crown prepares Rich orient pearl, and adamantine stars. Next, autumn, when the sun's withdrawing ray, The night enlarges, and contracts the day, To crown his labour to the farmer yields The yellow...