 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...(tods they had tried of every shape and size. That goldsmiths eould produee, or priests devise : These grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own. preeedent, was found Of men by laws less eireumseribed and bound, They led their wild desires to woods... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...size, That godsmiths could produce, or priests devise :) These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, si Began to dream they wanted liberty ; And when no 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... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1833 - 350 pages
...This pamper'd people whom, debauched with ease, No King could govern, and no God could please, These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they...when no rule, no precedent, was found, Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound, They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...and size, That gcxUmiths could produce, or priests deThese Adam-wits,* too fortunately free, [vise :) Began to dream they wanted liberty ; And when no rule, no precedent was found, Of men, hy laws leas circumscribM and bound ; They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...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...when no 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pages
...tried of every shape and size, That god-smiths could produce, or priests devise) : so These Adam-wits,2 too fortunately free, Began to dream they wanted liberty...when no rule, no precedent was found, Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound ; They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pages
...could produce, or priests devise :) These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream theyjwanted liberty ; And when no rule, no precedent was found, Of men, by laws less circumscribed and bound ; They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pages
...size, That god-smiths could produce, or priests devise :) These Adam-wits, too fortunatelv free, n Began to dream they wanted liberty ; And when no 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...tried of every shape and size, That god-smiths could produce, or priests devise :) ( These Adam- wits, too fortunately free, " Began to dream they wanted...when no rule, no precedent was found, Of men, by laws loss circumscribed and bound ; They led their wild desires to woods and caves, M And thought that all... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 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...when no rule, no precedent was found Of men by laws less circumscribed and bound, They led their wild desires to woods and caves 55 And thought that all... | |
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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. 
