 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...this extraordinary compound, which I believe was of his own coinage, in ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL : " Gods they had tried of every shape and size, " That godsmiths could produce, or priests devise." champion, as they would have him, who think fortitude the first virtue in a hero. But being... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...«nl's pamper'd people, whom, debauch'd with ease, No king could govern, nor no God could please ; (Gods they had 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 liberty ; And when no rule,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...wounded, in the Twelfth of the JSneis ; though he had the same godsmithf to forge his arms as had * Dryden had forgot, what he must certainly have known, that...same compound is used in " Absalom and Achitophel," &s has been noticed by Mr M alone : Gods the; had tried of every shape and size, That godjiniths could... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...: God's pamper'd people, whom, debauch'd with ease, No king could govern, nor no God could please ; (Gods they had 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 liberty ; And when no rule,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...; God's pampered people, whom, debauched with ease, No king could govern, nor no God could please ; Gods they had tried of every shape and size, That godsmiths could produce, or priests devise ; * First edit. with. f Duchess of Cucclcuch and Monmouth. See nole IV. J Note V. These Adam-wits,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...grace; God's pamper'd people, whom, debauch'd with ease, [please. No king could govern, nor no God could 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 wanted liberty ; And when no rule,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...; God's pamper'd people, whom, debauch'd with ease, No king could govern, nor no God could please ; (Gods they had tried of every shape and size That god-smiths could produce, or priests devise :} Ehese Adam-wits, too fortunately free, egan to dream they wanted liberty ; And when no rule,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...wounded, in the Twelfth of the ^Eneis ; though he had the same godsmithf to forge his arms as had * Dryden had forgot, what he must certainly have known, that...Gods they had tried of every shape and size, That godbmiths cou1d produce, or priests devise. Achilles. It seems he was no warluck,* as the Scots commonly... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...God's pamper'd people.whom, debauch'd with ease, No king, could govern, nor no God could, please ; (Gods they had 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 liberty ; And when no rule,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...; God's pamper'd people, whom debauch'd with ease, No king could govern, nor no God could please ; (Gods they had tried of every shape and size, That godsmiths could produce, or priests devise :) These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, si Began to dream they wanted liberty ; And when no... | |
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As ever tried the extent and stretch of grace ; God's pampered people, whom, debauched with ease No king could govern nor no God could please ; Gods they had tried of every shape and size That godsmiths could produce or priests devise... 
