Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. [The first… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And coral-insects build… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
“It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.” — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share
