. T. Lucretius Carus Of the nature of things : in six books. Illustrated with proper and useful notes. Adorned with copper-plates, curiously engraved by Guernier, and others .. . Via Pieridum per ago he a nullius anteIrita folo, juvat integros accedere fonteis ;Atqs haurire : juvatq; novos decerperefiores,Infignemque Meo capiti pet ere inde coronam^Unde priiis Nulli veldrint tempora quod magnis doceo de rebus, & arffiisReligionum amnios nodis exfolvere pergo \Deinde, quod obfeura de re tarn lucida pangoCarmbia, mufceo contingens cuncla lepore:Id quoque enim non ab nulla ratione v
. T. Lucretius Carus Of the nature of things : in six books. Illustrated with proper and useful notes. Adorned with copper-plates, curiously engraved by Guernier, and others .. . Via Pieridum per ago he a nullius anteIrita folo, juvat integros accedere fonteis ;Atqs haurire : juvatq; novos decerperefiores,Infignemque Meo capiti pet ere inde coronam^Unde priiis Nulli veldrint tempora quod magnis doceo de rebus, & arffiisReligionum amnios nodis exfolvere pergo \Deinde, quod obfeura de re tarn lucida pangoCarmbia, mufceo contingens cuncla lepore:Id quoque enim non ab nulla ratione videtur,JNam veluti Pueris abfynthia tetra Medentes^ 10 Cum 7. T. Lucretius Carus, O F T H E NATURE ^THINGS. THE FOURTH BOOK. I N S PIR9 D, I wander oer the Mufes Seats*of difficult Accefs, and yet untrod ; I loveto approach the pureft Springs, and thenceto draw large Draughts -, I love to crop frefhFlowers, and make a noble Garland for myHead from thence, where yet the Mufes neverbound anothers Temples with a Crown like flrft I write of lofty Things, and ftrive tofree the Mind from the fevereft Bonds of whatMen call Religion ; then my Verfe I frame foclear, akho my Theme be dark ; feafoning myLines with the Poetic Sweets of Fancy, and Rea-fon juftifies the Method; for as Phyficians when a The firft twenty-nine Lines of this Book, in which thePoet invites the Readers Attention, are to be found near;he latter End of Book the Firft. B 4 they 8 T. Lucretii Lib IV. Cum date conantur^ prius or as pocula circiim Contingunt mellis dulci^ Jlavoque liquore^ Ut Puerorum aitasimprovida ludijiceiur Labrorum tenusy Interea perpotet amarum 15 Abfynthi
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