 Oh, had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heaven had wanted one immortal song....  The Poetical Works of John Dryden - Page 72by John Dryden - 1868 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1801 - 416 pages
...From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed, David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heav'n bad wanted one immortal song. But wild Ambition loves...stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achithophel, grown weary to possess 30* A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...from the legal tenant." Dryden, in his Absalom and Achitophel, says, of the Earl of Shaftesbury, " David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had wanted one immortal song." This verse was surely ringing in the ear of Pope, when, in addressing Dr. Arbuthnot, he says, "Friend... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...From cockle, that oppress'd tue noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heav'n bad wanted one immortal song. But wild Ambition loves...stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Acbitopbel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pages
...proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung,...weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung,...weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 pages
...the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that Oppressed the noble seedDavid for him his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had...stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land ; Disdains the golden fruit to gather free, And lends the crowd his arm to shake the tree.' But all... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...fioed From cockle, that oppre.-s'd the noble s-eed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, Atid e animal, jirovide All the gay hues that wait on female pride ; Let nature suidc • Achiiophrl, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and la/.y happiness, Disdaiu'd the golden fruit... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...the noble seed , David for him hii tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had wanted one immortal son; But wild ambition loves to slide not stand: And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's laud. Achitophel, grown weary to possess ; A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdaiu'd the gulden... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed Frem cockle, that eppress'd the noble Vh L } dK $2 % "M : - 5[ <hnR s T \ 8 rX ۑ b e 052... @L{ æ e M ő ~ E ()2G vW< } 2E K Rlsdain'd the -golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1810 - 722 pages
...freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heav'n had wanted one immortal song. But wild -ambition loves...stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land." " A martial hero, first, with early care, Blown, like a pigmy by the winds, to war; A beardless chief,... | |
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