 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...constrained be- 1 fore. That other does not liberty constrain, But man may either act, or may refrain. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced...human race, And prescience only held the second place. If he could make such agents wholly free, I not dispute ; the point's too high for me : For heaven's... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...constrained be- 1 fore. That other does not liberty constrain, But man may either act, or may refrain. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced...human race, And prescience only held the second place. If he could make such agents wholly free, I not dispute ; the point's too high for me : For heaven's... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...not constrain'd fore. That other does not liberty constrain, But man may either act, or may refrain. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced...not, though he foresaw the will. Freedom was first bestow'd on human race, And prescience only held the second place. If he could make- such agents wholly... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio, John Dryden - English poetry - 1822 - 286 pages
...not constraint before. That other does not liberty constrain, But man may either act, or may refrain. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced...not, though he foresaw the will. Freedom was first bestow'd on human race, And prescience only held the second place. If he could make such agents wholly... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...constrain'd before. That other does not liberty constrain, But man may either act, or may refrain. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced...not, though he foresaw the will. Freedom was first bestow'd on human race, And Prescience only held the second place. If he could make such agents wholly... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...contradiction, it seems it may be struck out of the omnisciency of God, and leave no blemish behind. Mare. Freedom was first bestowed on human race, And prescience only held the second place. Dryden. Thrice happy thou, dear partner of my bed. Whose holy soul the stroke of fortune fled ; I'rescimis... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1834 - 322 pages
...nearly as strict an imprisonment as that to which the law had sentenced her brother. CHAPTER XIII. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced...human race, And Prescience only held the second place. DBYDEN. " I HAVE thought much of our late conversation," said Eustace to his German friend, when they... | |
 | Philip Wood - 1849 - 348 pages
...we could not possibly be subject to either rewards or punishments hereafter in an eternal state. " Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill, And forced it not, though he foresaw the will." DRYDEN. If man were a mere animated machine, and driven hither and thither by a fatal necessity, without... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...freedom, which he then would prize More than all wealth beneath the skies. Modernized from Harbour. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced...human race, And prescience only held the second place. Dryden, The greatest glory of a free-born people, Is to transmit that freedom to their children. Havard.... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 324 pages
...constrained before. That other does not liberty constrain, But man may either act, or may refrain. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced...human race, And prescience only held the second place. If he could make such agents wholly free, I not dispute ; the point's too high for me : For Heaven's... | |
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That other does not liberty constrain, But man may either act, or may refrain. Heaven made us agents free to good or ill, And forced it not, though he foresaw the will. 
