 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...clean ; T7nhrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, i9o Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the Crown With virtues only proper to the gowu, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'dthe noble seed, 19c David... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...the original poem, — out of which they grew, and to which they are immediately introductory : " O, had he been content to serve the crown " With virtues only proper to the gown, . " Or had the rankness of the soil," &c. For so natural an addition, therefore, we have no occasion... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...the" original poem, — out of which they grew, arid to which they are immediately introductory : " O, had he been content to serve the crown " With virtues only proper to the gown-, " Or had the rankness of the soil," &c. For so natural an addition, therefore, we have no occasion... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...the original poem,— out of which they grew, and to which they are immediately introductory : " O, had he been content to serve the crown " With virtues only proper to tht gown, " Or had the raakness of the soil," &c. For so natural an addition, therefore, we have nc... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...original poem,— -out of which they grew, and to which they arc immediately introductory : " O, had lie been content to serve the crown " With virtues only proper to the gown, " Or had the rank ness of the soil," &c. For so natural an addition, therefore, we have no occasion... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...clean ; TJnbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, 194 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...clean ; XJnbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! bad 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 tue noble seed ; David for him... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...clean ; Jnbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, iwift of dispatch, and easy of access. _^X ' 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... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...morf clean, Unlirth'd, 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... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...more clean — Unbribed, 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... | |
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Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown... 
