 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 pages
...Gods they had tried of every shape and size That godsmiths could produce or priests devise ; 50 These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they...found Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound, \ , Anne Scott, countess of Bucclcuch in her own right, married to the Duke of Monmouth, 1665. The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1901 - 384 pages
...or priests devise; 50 These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they wanted liberty ; t And when no rule, no precedent was found Of men by...bound, They led their wild desires to woods and caves 55 And thought that all but savages were slaves. They who, when Saul was dead, without a blow Made... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1904 - 526 pages
...(Gods they had tried of every shape and size That godsmiths could produce or priests devise) ; 50 These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they...found Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound, They'led their wild desires to woods and caves And thought that all but savages were slaves. They who,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1905 - 196 pages
...Gods they had tried of every shape and size That godsmiths could produce or priests devise ; 60 These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, .— Began to dream...wild desires to woods and caves And thought that all buj^ savages were slaves. They who, when Saul was dead, without a blow .-"— Made foolish Ishbosheth... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 506 pages
...from Pope, appropriate to " the ferocious and enslaved RepublicK of France," ended in these words : They led their wild desires to woods and caves And thought that all but savages were slaves. Blake: When France got Free, Europe, 'twixt fools and knaves, Were savage first to France, and after... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...(Gods they had tried of every shape and size 5 That godsmiths could produce or priests devise) ; These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they...found Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound, 10 They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all but savages were slaves. They... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...(Gods they had tried of every shape and size 5 That godsmiths could produce or priests devise) ; These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they...found Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound, 10 They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all but savages were slaves. They... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pages
...they had tried of every shape and size, That god-smiths could produce, or priests devise:) 50 These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they...rule, no precedent was found, Of men by laws less circumscrib'd and bound; They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all but suvages... | |
 | Charles William Previté-Orton - 1910 - 264 pages
...please; Gods they had tried of every shape and size That godsmiths could produce or priests devise; These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they...caves And thought that all but savages were slaves. Dryden has been lauded for the high plane of his satire, but this must be taken with some qualification.... | |
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Of men, by laws less circumscribed and bound ; They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all but savages were slaves. 
