 | 1863 - 612 pages
...writer of these days would have ventured on this exordium ? "In pious times, ere priestcraft did begia, Before polygamy was made a sin ; When man on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confmed ; When nature prompted, and no law denied Promiscuous use of concubine and bride ; Then Israel's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pages
...necessary in a hot distempered state, as an opiate would be in a raging fever. ABSALOM* AND ACHITOPHEL. IN pious times ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy...confined ; When nature prompted, and no law denied i Promiscuous use of concubine and bride ; Then Israel's monarch after heaven's own heart, His vigorous... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 470 pages
...sympathetically in reference to those "pious times" before polygamy was made a sin : — •: \Vhen Nature prompted, and no law denied Promiscuous use of concubine and bride." But whatever a vigorous poet, with a sarcastic scourge in his hand, may be allowed to rhyme on such... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...necessary in a hot distempered state as an opiate would be in a raging fever. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. IN pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before...cursedly confined, When nature prompted and no law denied 5 Promiscuous use of concubine and bride, Then Israel's monarch after Heaven's own heart His vigorous... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...necessary in a hot distempered state as an opiate would be in a raging fever. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. IN pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before...cursedly confined, When nature prompted and no law denied 5 Promiscuous use of concubine and bride, Then Israel's monarch after Heaven's own heart His vigorous... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pages
...:tn«l blunt his natural edge With profits of the miml, study, ,ind fnst." ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. ', IN pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before...confined,. W;hen nature prompted and no law denied J Promiscuous''use of concubine and bride, Then Israel's^monarch after Heaven's own heart * I/ His... | |
 | 1872 - 602 pages
...hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging alow with sullen roar." Dryden. "When Man on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confined." Pope. " But thousands die without or this or that, Die and endow a college or a cat." CMini. " With... | |
 | 1872 - 592 pages
...far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar." Dryden. " When Han on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confined." Pope. " But thousands die without or this or that, Die and endow a college or a cat." CW/i'nj. " With... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...necessary in a hot distempered state as an opiate would be in a raging fever. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. IN pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before...cursedly confined, When nature prompted and no law denied 5 Promiscuous use of concubine and bride, Then Israel's monarch after Heaven's own heart His vigorous... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...necessary in a hot distempered state as an opiate would be in a raging fever. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. IN pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before...cursedly confined, When nature prompted and no law denied 5 Promiscuous use of concubine and bride, Then Israel's monarch after Heaven's own heart His vigorous... | |
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IN pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd; When nature prompted, and no law denied... 
