 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 páginas
...done. 1184 Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down. DRYDENJohn 1631-1700 1185 Absalom and Achitophel In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin. 1186 Absalom and Achitophel Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and... | |
 | Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 404 páginas
...obvious in 1681 than the contemporary identities of the figures in its opening lines? In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin, Before Polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multiply'd his kind, E'r one to one was, cursedly, confind: When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd... | |
 | Varadaraja V. Raman - 1998 - 398 páginas
...Brahmädatta quite willingly accepts to take a hundred young women as his wives. Dryden referred to ".. pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin." He obviously did not know that there existed societies where priest-craft blessed and sometimes even... | |
 | Mavis Batey - 1999 - 544 páginas
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 | Steven L. McKenzie - 2000 - 253 páginas
...and Achitophel" (1681) satirized King Charles II as promiscuous, he chose David for the caricature:10 In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before...many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd; When nature prompted, and no law denied Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then Israel's... | |
 | 1981 - 508 páginas
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 | Pat Rogers - 2001 - 580 páginas
...illegitimacy, in terms which appeal to his age's ribald temper and also its distrust of religious fervour. In pious times, ere Priestcraft did begin, Before...man on many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one was, cutsedly, confined . . . In this sexually liberated version of the Golden Age, David begat Absalom,... | |
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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. 
