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| Alphabetical [« »] eternally 1 eterne 1 etesian 3 ether 35 ether-father 1 ethereal 7 etrurian 1 | Frequency [« »] 35 abroad 35 beasts 35 both 35 ether 35 most 34 alone 34 asunder | Titus Lucretius Carus On the Nature of Things Concordances ether |
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1 I| full?~ And out of what does Ether feed the stars?~ For lapsed 2 I| that~ The gliding fires of ether are alive -~ What still 3 I| and how,~ For this all ether quivers with bright stars,~ 4 II| was sent~ From shores of ether, that, returning home,~ 5 II| this our world which vasty ether holds~ In huge embrace.~ 6 II| Beat out new fire; and ether forges ether;~ Till Nature, 7 II| new fire; and ether forges ether;~ Till Nature, author and 8 III| of strength!~ ~ Again, in ether can't exist a tree,~ Nor 9 III| all others,~ As sun, in ether arisen, all the stars.~ 10 IV| image from the shores of ether falls~ Unto the shores of 11 IV| borne~ Through the pure ether and the viewless winds,~ 12 IV| beneath~ The vasty shores of ether, and intervene~ A thousand 13 V| can exist -~ Just as in ether can't exist a tree,~ Nor 14 V| s fire,~ In water, or in ether's skiey coasts.~ Therefore 15 V| skiey road~ Down the whole ether and over all the lands.~ 16 V| separate,~ And fires of ether separate and pure~ Likewise 17 V| earth.~ And thus it was that ether, fraught with fire,~ First 18 V| the heavens. And thuswise ether too,~ Light and diffusive, 19 V| greedy clasp.~ Hard upon ether came the origins~ Of sun 20 V| the earth and mightiest ether, -~ For neither took them, 21 V| day~ The more the tides of ether and rays of sun~ On every 22 V| ocean, then the air,~ Then ether herself, the fraught-with-fire, 23 V| than the next below;~ And ether, most light and liquid of 24 V| fires along. For, lo,~ That ether can flow thus steadily on, 25 V| because~ Swift tides of ether are by sky enclosed,~ And 26 V| lastly, whatso fires~ Of ether thou from earth beholdest, 27 V| why may yonder stars in ether there~ Along their mighty 28 V| doth dispart~ The coasts of ether and divides in twain~ His 29 V| young years~ Of earth and ether. First of all, the race~ 30 V| of yon great world~ And ether, fixed high o'er twinkling 31 VI| And fields to float, if ether were not thus~ Furnished 32 VI| rain,~ That all the murky ether seems to turn~ Now into 33 VI| the mountain up~ Into far ether. For very fact and feeling,~ 34 VI| on high~ Of constellated ether burdens down~ Upon them, 35 VI| the narrow tubes of yonder ether,~ Yea, so to speak, through