Read full poem →was forbidden by the licenser, and Gay's patrons, the Duke and Duchess
of Queensberry, were driven from court for soliciting subscriptions for
him, Pope warmly espoused his cause. Gay died in 1732 and was buried in
Dictionary Entry
To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
In a Sentence
“You drive nails into wood with a hammer.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
back drivenoff drivenaway driven
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Poetry examples for “driven”
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Read full poem →[Footnote 12: The Thebans are subsequently represented by Statius as
driven into the Ismenus by the Greeks, and the hosts which were killed
or drowned were carried by the river into the sea.]
Read full poem →And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to be chaste."
Read full poem →For the Loire would have driven us down to the sea,
And the sea would have pitched us from shoal to shoal;
Read full poem →Where pent up human forces labour and strive,
Where beauty dwells not, driven forth by man;
But where in winter they must live until
Read full poem →with him to recall many from banishment by his intercession
and prevailed also for those who were driven out, that they might
not, like others, be hurried beyond Tznarus, and the mountain:
Read full poem →them, and indeed what shame and disgrace, when at last they
were driven to use violence to him. This made Clodius despair
of driving Cicero out of Italy while Cato stayed at home. There-
Read full poem →And Cicero, now being returned from his banishment, into
which he was driven by Clodius, and having again obtained
great credit among the people, went, in the absence of Clodius,
Read full poem →greatest zeal and resolution for their defence. Thus King Philip
was driven out of the Hellespont, and was despised to boot,
whom, till now, it had been thought impossible to match, or