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| Alphabetical [« »] morn 2 morning 5 morose 1 mortal 48 mortality 13 mortals 14 moss 1 | Frequency [« »] 50 high 49 reason 48 cannot 48 mortal 48 nothing 47 around 47 cause | Titus Lucretius Carus On the Nature of Things Concordances mortal |
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1 I| first opposing dared~ Raise mortal eyes that terror to withstand,~ 2 I| annihilation.~ For, were aught mortal in its every part,~ Before 3 I| Have eat all shapes of mortal stock away:~ But be it the 4 I| to be~ Of birth and body mortal, thus, throughout,~ The 5 I| thing will be~ At bottom as mortal as whate'er we mark~ To 6 II| yet since these things are mortal all -~ The pliant mortal, 7 II| mortal all -~ The pliant mortal, with a body soft;~ The 8 II| body soft;~ The brittle mortal, with a crumbling frame;~ 9 II| fashioned soft and of a mortal frame.~ Yet be't that these 10 II| all~ One and the same with mortal. Grant they could,~ Yet 11 II| same in kind~ As a whole mortal creature, even they~ Must 12 II| less, and theirs a body of mortal birth~ No less, than every 13 II| firmament above let down~ The mortal generations to the fields;~ 14 III| forevermore.~ THE SOUL IS MORTAL~ ~ Now come: that thou mayst 15 III| souls of all that live~ Have mortal birth and death, I will 16 III| Teaching the same to be but mortal, think~ Thereby I'm speaking 17 III| is forewarning to~ That mortal lives the mind. For proper 18 III| the body too:~ Each is but mortal, since alike is each~ Hewn 19 III| We needs must hold it mortal. But perchance~ If thou 20 III| Still must the soul as mortal be confessed;~ Nor aught 21 III| to confess~ The soul but mortal, since, so altered now~ 22 III| Immortals waiting for their mortal limbs~ In numbers innumerable, 23 III| frame.~ For, verily, the mortal to conjoin~ With the eternal, 24 III| ill-assorted,~ Than something mortal in a union joined~ With 25 III| Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.~ And just as in 26 III| immortal hath ta'en the mortal life.~ ~ Hence, where thou 27 III| hence~ He grieves that he is mortal born, nor marks~ That in 28 III| inveigh against us so:~ "Mortal, what hast thou of such 29 III| and not the single hour,~ Mortal's estate in whatsoever remains~ 30 V| shall be none, methinks, of mortal stock.~ For if must needs 31 V| ve found),~ In class of mortal objects, o'er all else,~ 32 V| the universe~ Consists of mortal body, born in time,~ And 33 V| of heaven,~ Branding with mortal talk immortal things -~ 34 V| of frost doth rob~ From mortal kind. And what is left to 35 V| That earth and fire are mortal things indeed,~ And have 36 V| entirely must it be~ Of mortal birth and body; for whate' 37 V| reasoning are we~ Seen to be mortal, save that all of us~ Sicken 38 V| for things~ Which are of mortal body could indeed~ Never 39 V| and afterward begat~ The mortal generations, there upsprung -~ 40 V| first gave unto the day~ The mortal generations; for prevailed~ 41 V| PERIOD~ OF MANKIND~ ~ But mortal man~ Was then far hardier 42 V| May well have given to mortal men the fire.~ Next, food 43 V| more likely 'twere that mortal men~ In those days could 44 V| wonder is it then~ That mortal generations abase themselves,~ 45 VI| world's great vaults~ Are mortal and that sky is fashioned~ 46 VI| man; and everything~ Which mortal sees the biggest of each 47 VI| Malign and harsh when mortal draws a breath;~ Of not 48 VI| of disease, 'twas such~ Mortal miasma in Cecropian lands~