 But when she had made all these advances, it was still in his power to have refused them. After the intrigue of the cave, call it marriage, or enjoyment only, he was no longer free to take or leave ; he had accepted the favour, and was obliged to be constant,...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 170by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...he was no longer free to take or leave; he had accepted the favour, and was obliged to be constant, if he would be grateful. My lord, I have set this...the being of a God, and Providence, that many think be has not answered them. You may please, at least, to hear the adverse party. Segrais pleads for Virgil,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 386 pages
...is, that he is an Arian, a Socinian, or a Deist. " Mr. Dryden likewise tells us, that our author ' has raised such strong objections against the being...Providence, that many think he has not answered them.' And the late Earl of Shaftesbury, in his Moralists, a rhapsody, has the following passage : — ' You... | |
 | 1822 - 386 pages
...is, that he is an Arian, a Socinian, or a Deist. " Mr. Dryden likewise tells us, that our author ' has raised such strong objections against the being...Providence, that many think he has not answered them." And the late Earl of Shaftesbury, in his Moralists, a rhapsody, has the following passage : — ' You... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch - 1829 - 554 pages
...is, that he is an Arian, a Socinian, or a Deist." Mr. Dryden likewise tells us,' that our Author " has raised such strong objections against the being...providence, that many think he has not answered them." And the late earl of Shaftesbury, in his Moralists, a rhapsody/ has the following passage: — " You... | |
 | Virgil - 1830 - 348 pages
...only), he was no longer free to take or leave; he had accepted the favor, and was obliged to be constant if he would be grateful. My lord, I have set this...has raised such strong objections against the being ofa god, and providence, that many think he has not answered them. You may please at least to hear... | |
 | Virgil - 1834 - 314 pages
...he was no longer free to take or leave; he had accepted the favour, and was obliged to be constant if he would be grateful. My lord, I have set this...the best light I can, that the ladies may not think 1 write booty : and perhaps it may happen to me, as it did to Doctor Cudworth, who has raised such... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...he was no longer free to take or leave ; he had accepted the favour, and was obliged to be constant, if he would be grateful. My lord, I have set this...think I write booty ; and perhaps it may happen to mo, as it did to Doctor Cudworth,* who has raised such strong objections against the being of a God,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...Messiah, styles him a Socinian or Deist, at the least, if not an Atheist ; and Dryden has said, " Cudworth has raised such strong objections against the being of a God and providence, that it is thought by many he has not answered them," — " the common fate," adds Lord Shaftesbury, " of... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth - 1837 - 810 pages
...is, that he is an Arian, a Socinian, or a Deist." Mr. Dryden likewise tells us,5 that our author " has raised such strong objections against the being...providence, that many think he has not answered them." And the late earl of Shaftesbury, in his Moralists, a rhapsody,6 has the following passage : — "... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...Arian, Socinian, Deist, and even Atheist, were freely applied to him. ' He has raised,' says Pryden, ' such stro ;' — ' the common fate,' as Lord Shaftesbury remarks on this occasion, ' of those who dare to appear... | |
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