 | John Bell - 1807 - 346 ページ
...well! We, blindly by our headstrong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed ; Then wish for heirs : but to the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives, are known; Th' audacious strumpet, and ungracious son. Yet not to rob the priests of pious gain, That altars be not wholly built... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 442 ページ
...well ! We, blindly by our 'head-strong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed ; Then wish for heirs ; but to the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives, are known ; The audacious strumpet, and ungracious son. Yet, not to rob the priests of pious gain, That altars... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 348 ページ
...well! We, blindly by our headstrong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed ; Then wish for heirs, but to the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known. DKYnEK. Prom my own Apartment, March 15. AMONG the various sets of correspondents who apply to me for... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 ページ
...well ! We, blindly by our head-strong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed ; Then wish for heirs ; but to the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives, are known; The audacious strumpet, and ungracious son. Yet, not to rob the priests of pious gain, That altars... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 ページ
...lov'd ourfelves but half fo well ! 540 "We, blindly by our headftrong paffions led, Are hot for action, and defire to wed ; Then wifh for heirs : but to the...ungracious fon. Yet not to rob the priefts of pious gain, 546 That altars be not wholly built in vain ; Forgive the gods the reft, and Itand confin'd To health... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 ページ
...lov'd ourfelves but half fo well ! 540 We, blindly by our headftrong paffions led, Are hot for action, and defire to wed ; Then wifh for heirs : but to the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives, known ; Th' audacious ftrumpet, and ungracious fon. Yet not to rob the priefts of pious gain, 546 That... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 342 ページ
...well i We, blindly by our headstrong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed ; Then wUh for heirs, but to the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known. DKYDBN. From my own Apartment, March 15. AMOXG the various sets of correspondents who apply to me for... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 440 ページ
...well ! We, blindly by our headstrong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed ; Then wish for heirs ; but to the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives, are known ; The audacious strumpet, and ungracious son. Yet, not to rob the priests of pious gain, That altars... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 ページ
...well! We, blindly by our headstrong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed; Then wish for heirs: but to the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives, are known; The' audacious strumpet, and ungracious son. Yet not to rob the priests of pious gain, That altars... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 ページ
...well ! We, blindly by our headstrong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed ; Then wish for heirs, but to the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known. DRYDEX. FROM MY OWN APARTMENT, MARCH 15. AMoNG the various sets of correspondents who apply to me for... | |
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We, blindly by our headstrong passions led, Are hot for action, and desire to wed; Then wish for heirs: but to the gods alone Our future offspring, and our wives are known; Th' audacious strumpet, and ungracious son. 
