The Poetry of Lucretius a Lecture Delivered At the John Rylands Library On the
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And no one ever urged with more passionate eloquence that it is unreasonable to fear to die. None the less, phrases charged with a different feeling about life continually escape him. He speaks of ^^ praeclara minidi uatitra [v. 157]. To begin to live is to " rise up into the divine borders of light " [l. 20]. And secondly, despite his philosophical assurance, incessantly repeated, that birth and death are merely different aspects of the same continu- ous mechanical process, and that nothing re...ceives life except by the death of something else, " Alid ex alio reficit natura, nee ullam Rem gigni patitur, nisi morte adiuta aliena " [l. 264, etc. ], he cannot sup- press suggestions that the creative energy of the world is akin to that which with conscious desire and will brings forth the successive genera- tions of Man. And so, in the astonishing and magnificent opening address, the poet who was about to demonstrate that the gods lived eternally remote from the life of men, calls upon Venus, the legend- ary mother of his own race, as the divine power ever at work in this teeming universe, the giver of increase, bringing all things to birth, from the simplest corn blade to the might and glory of the Roman Empire : Mother of the Roman race, delight of gods and men, benign Venus, who under the gliding constellations of heaven fillest with thy pres- ence the sea with its ships and the earth with its fruits, seeing that by thy power all the races of living things are conceived and come to being in the light of day, before thee O goddess the winds take flight, and the clouds of heaven at thy coming, at thy feet the brown earth sheds her flowers of a thousand hues, before thee the sea breaks into rippling laughter, and the untroubled sky glows with radiant light [l.
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And no one ever urged with more passionate eloquence that it is unreasonable to fear to die. None the less, phrases charged with a different feeling about life continually escape him. He speaks of ^^ praeclara minidi uatitra [v. 157]. To begin to live is to " rise up into the divine borders of light " [l. 20]. And secondly, despite his philosophical assurance, incessantly repeated, that birth and death are merely different aspects of the same continu- ous mechanical process, and that nothing re...ceives life except by the death of something else, " Alid ex alio reficit natura, nee ullam Rem gigni patitur, nisi morte adiuta aliena " [l. 264, etc. ], he cannot sup- press suggestions that the creative energy of the world is akin to that which with conscious desire and will brings forth the successive genera- tions of Man. And so, in the astonishing and magnificent opening address, the poet who was about to demonstrate that the gods lived eternally remote from the life of men, calls upon Venus, the legend- ary mother of his own race, as the divine power ever at work in this teeming universe, the giver of increase, bringing all things to birth, from the simplest corn blade to the might and glory of the Roman Empire : Mother of the Roman race, delight of gods and men, benign Venus, who under the gliding constellations of heaven fillest with thy pres- ence the sea with its ships and the earth with its fruits, seeing that by thy power all the races of living things are conceived and come to being in the light of day, before thee O goddess the winds take flight, and the clouds of heaven at thy coming, at thy feet the brown earth sheds her flowers of a thousand hues, before thee the sea breaks into rippling laughter, and the untroubled sky glows with radiant light [l.
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