 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2006 - 262 pàgines
...repetition of the Civil War, as if history threatens to be cyclical; in the 1640s, he reminds us, 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 pàgines
...they had tried of every shape and size 50 That god-smiths 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 circumscribed and bound, 55 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. 
