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| Alphabetical [« »] teem 2 teeth 11 teleological 1 tell 18 telling 1 tells 3 telluric 9 | Frequency [« »] 18 sides 18 spot 18 takes 18 tell 18 terror 18 thunderbolt 18 whatso | Titus Lucretius Carus On the Nature of Things Concordances tell |
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1 I| it is in Latian verse~ To tell the dark discoveries of 2 II| there be more wonderful to tell,~ What that the nations 3 III| same mind I will go on to tell.~ First, I aver, 'tis superfine, 4 III| Now in my eagerness to tell thee how~ They are commixed, 5 III| baseless terror, as the fables tell,~ Fears the huge boulder 6 IV| has man to open mouth to tell;~ Especially, since on outsides 7 IV| image is~ There's none to tell or reckon out in words.~ ~ 8 IV| divers impulse tends - I'll tell~ In verses sweeter than 9 IV| power to see and chance to tell:~ For when 'tis sent, at 10 IV| of this ilk they love to tell,~ Lest they be thought to 11 IV| come what come. And first I tell thee this:~ That many images 12 IV| from cares of mind, I'll tell~ In verses sweeter than 13 IV| A weary while it were to tell the whole.~ But let her 14 V| all things -~ As some men tell - and takes them to itself~ 15 V| moon,~ I'll now in order tell. For of a truth~ Neither 16 V| world's primeval age~ And tell what first the soft young 17 V| themselves~ (As stories tell) and published at last~ 18 VI| Which best it seems to tell of, ere I go~ To telling