 | Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - 2002 - 556 páginas
...taint. Indeed, the poem wittily legitimizes royal profligacy by identifying it with David's polygamy: "When Nature prompted, and no law denied / Promiscuous use of Concubine and Bride" (11. 5-6). He fuses the early Stuart theory of royal absolutism with a daring parody of Genesis 1 :26-28,... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 páginas
...of oblivion were as necessary in a hot, distempered state, as an opiate would be in a raging fever. In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before...and bride; Then Israel's monarch after heaven's own heart,0 His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves; and, wide as his command. Scattered... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 páginas
...handled with a most telling exactness, and by an irony that suffuses the whole: 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, confined: When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2006 - 262 páginas
...sexuality which far from being tyrannical is a relic of a libertine golden age before priestly control: In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before...many multiplied his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confind; When nature prompted, and no law denied Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then Israel's... | |
 | Elizabeth Kantor - 2006 - 278 páginas
...Charles's philandering as the polygamy that was permitted to King David in Old Testament times: 106 In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin. . . . Then Israel's monarch after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart. . .... | |
 | William Goodman - 2008 - 514 páginas
...Charles the Second. I particularly remember the bit that goes 'Before polygamy was made a sin, where man on many multiplied his kind, ere one to one was cursedly confined, when nature promoted and no law denied, promiscuous use of concubine and bride.'" "Blimey," I said, "I'm impressed."... | |
 | Bernadette Andrea - 2008
...On the one hand, the poet laureate John Dryden suggests the primal innocence of the kingly libido: "In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, / Before polygamy was made a sin, I ... I The Israel's monarch after Heaven's own heart / His vigorous warmth did variously impart /... | |
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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. 
