 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 Quarterly Review - Pàgina 311editat per - 1832Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 pàgines
...for him his tuneful harp had strung, • And Heav'n had wanted one immortal song. But wild Amhition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achithophel, grown weary to possess aco A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit... | |
 | John Dryden - 1879 - 312 pàgines
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 | 1801 - 416 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 - 1808 - 476 pàgines
...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...stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pàgines
...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...stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pàgines
...David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heav'n had wanted one immortal song. But wild Amhition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pàgines
...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... | |
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