"Divertive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and thee: But I, whose active Soul despise that drousy God, Can ever dare him in his height of Power: Then when he ties thee to thy lazy Couch, Where thou'rt so far from Sense, thou'st lost thy Soul; Even then, my Geron, my divertive Fancy Possesses me, beyond thy waking Thought— But, Geron, all was but an airy Dream; I wak'd, and found my self a thing ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn |
