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" Promiscuous use of concubine and bride ; Then Israel's monarch after heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves ; and wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land. "
The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ... - Page 217
by John Dryden - 1808
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11

Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...I. .rnpu-l mtgit— HOB. Ix pious times, ere priesteraft did begin, Hefore polygamy was made a sini When man on many multiplied his kind. Ere one to one was eursedly eonfin'd, When Nature prompted, and no law denied Promiseuous use of eoneuhine and bridei...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
..." Sic orum Natura, dedit Deua his quoque finem." DRYDEN— AD 1631-1701. ABSALOM AND ACH1TOPHEL. In rry reign. There through the prison of unbounded wilds, Barr'd by the hand of nature from escape, Wi hie kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd ; When nature prompted, and no law deny'd, Promiscuous...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...his quoque finem." DRYDEN— AD I63I-1701. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. I v pious times, ere priesteraft oure s eursedly eonfln'd ; When nature prompted, and no law deny'd, Promiseuous use of eoneubine and bride...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1832 - 342 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 s Promiscuous use of concubine and bride ; Then Israel's monarch after heaven's own heart, His vigorous...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...necessary in a hot distempered state, as an opiate would be in a raging fever. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.* Iv pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy...bride; Then Israel's monarch after heaven's own heart, Hia vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves ; and wide as his command! Scatter'd his...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...Achitophel,' folio, half-sheet, London, 1631. ' Ahsdlon'u, tX. Worthies,' a Poem, folio, half-sheet, no When man on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one...nature prompted, and no law denied, Promiscuous use of concuhine and hride ; Then Israel's monarch after heaven's own he art, His vigorous warmth did variously...
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Notes and Queries

1872 - 676 pages
...far-oft' curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar." Di-yden. t "\Vhen 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." CMint. "With...
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The Census of Great Britain in 1851: Comprising an Account of the Numbers ...

Great Britain. Census Office - 1854 - 234 pages
...figures under the character of David : " In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin,] Before POLYGAMY ims made a sin; When man on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one u~as cursedly confned ; "When nature prompted, and no law denied Promiscuous use of concubine and bride...
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The census of Great Britain in 1851. Repr., in a condensed form, from the ...

Census office - 1854 - 222 pages
...figures under the character of David : " In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, ßej'ore PuLYOAMY uas made a sin; When man on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one •<• as ctn^edh/ confuted ; \Vheu nature piompted, and no law denied Promiscuous use of concubine...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pages
...Villiers, Duke of BuckinKham. ZILOAH, Sir John Moor, Lord Mayor in 1681. 10 ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. IN pious times ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy...made a sin ; * When man on many multiplied his kind, Bre one to one was cursedly confined ; When nature prompted, and no law denied Promiscuous use of concubine...
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