 | 1809 - 402 pàgines
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the ranknesa of the soil been free'd From cockle that oppress' d the noble seed , David for him hii tuneful... | |
 | 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 pàgines
...unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access ; O 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 seedDavid for him his tuneful... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1810 - 722 pàgines
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues, only proper to the gown — Or had the rankness of ine soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed David for him his tuneful... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pàgines
...more clean, Unbrib'd, unfought, the wretched to redrefs ; Swift of difpatch, and eafy of accefs. 191 Oh ! had he been content to ferve the crown, With...freed, From cockle, that opprefs'd the noble feed ; 195 David for him his tuneful harp had ftrung, And heaven had wanted one immortal fong. But wild... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pàgines
...unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access.' 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 oppress'd the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pàgines
...unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access.' 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 oppress'd the noble seed; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pàgines
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. 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 oppress'd the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve forth he fares, all toil defies: Misfortune rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pàgines
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. 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 oppress'd the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | 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 - 650 pàgines
...unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access ; O 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... | |
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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. 
