 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 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,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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 harp had strung, And heaven...virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven...virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...the gpwn ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heaven...Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess . A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...the gown ; Or had the rankucss of the soil been freed From cockle, that opprcss'd the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heaven...Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefc r> to Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess "\ Л lawful fame, and lazy happiness,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...to slide, not stand, And Fortune's iee prefers to Virtue's land. Aehitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the erowd his arm to shake the tree. Now manifest of erimes eoutriv'd long sinee, He stood at bold defianee... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...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 harp had strung, And Heaven...Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 pages
...tombs after our death." 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 ringing in the ear of Pope, when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 pages
...tombs after our death." 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 long." This verse was ringing in the ear of Pope, when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...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 harp had strung, And Heaven...Virtue's land. 'Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his... | |
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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.... 
