 | History - 1921 - 236 pages
...and size, That godsmiths could produce, or priests devise:) These Adam-wiis, too fortunately free, x 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... | |
 | History - 1922 - 496 pages
...(Gods they had try'd 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 - 1923 - 196 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 And thought that all but... | |
 | William Paton Ker - English poetry - 1923 - 172 pages
...please: (Gods they had tried of ev'ry shape and size That godsmiths could produce or priests devise) And when no rule, no precedent was found Of men by laws less circumscrib'd and bound, They led their wild desires to rocks and caves, And thought that all... | |
 | William Paton Ker - English poetry - 1923 - 168 pages
...please : (Gods they had tried of ev'ry shape and size That godsmiths could produce or priests devise) And when no rule, no precedent was found Of men by laws less circumscrib'd and bound, They led their wild desires to rocks and caves, And thought that all... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 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... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...they had tried of every shape and size, 46 That god-smiths could produce, or priests devise:) These less circumscribed and bound; 50 They led their wild desires to woods and caves, And thought that all... | |
 | Peter Oliver - History - 1967 - 204 pages
...People, whom, debauch'd with Ease, No King could govern, nor no God could please. These Adam— Wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they wanted Liberty,...when no Rule, no Precedent was found, Of Men, by Laws less circumscrib'd & bound; They led their wild Desires to Woods & Caves, And thought that all but... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 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...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 but... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...identifying him but so as to raise Blake's political suspicions along with his artist's hackles: 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... | |
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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. 
