 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...noble seed; David for him his tuneful harp had strung. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand j And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, a lasting happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his... | |
 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 pages
...ransacked places rather obscure for new ideas. From his Absalom and Achithopel, we take these lines : — "But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land". We now turn to Knolles's History of the Turks, where under a portrait of the Sultan, Mustapha the First,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung. »*»***» But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand ; And...to Virtue's land. Achitophel grown weary to possess A lawful fame, a lasting happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...the gown ; Or had the ra.n1rnp.aa of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppressed 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, Disdained the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...174. • What thin partitions sense from thought divide. POPE. Essag on Jfan. Epistle i. Line 262. But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.* Part i. Line 198. The people's prayer — the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pages
...the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed ; as David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had wanted one immortal song. 1" Usurp'da patriot's all-atoning name] The first edition rends: Assum'da patron's all-atoning name.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1866 - 570 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...gown ; Or had the ronkness of the soil been freed From cockle, that opprees'd the noble seed ; 19i David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven...slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's loud. I Achitophel, grown weary to possess ya IA lawful fame, and lazy happiness, / Disdaiu'd the golden... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1869 - 570 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...Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weaiy to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...soil been freed From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed; David for him his tuneful harp had strung. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand; And Fortune's...Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, a lasting happiness, Disdained the go'.den fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd... | |
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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.... 
