 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.  Curiosities of Literature - Page 150by Isaac Disraeli - 1834Full view - About this book
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...lives to come, and cannot be extended from the legal tenant." Dryden, in his Absalom and Achitophel, says, of the Earl of Shaftesbury, " David for him...heaven had wanted one immortal song." This verse was surely ringing in the ear of Pope, when, in addressing Dr. Arbuthnot, he says, "Friend of my life,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...Achitophel " says of the Earl of Shaftesbury, David for him bis tuneful harp had strung, And Heaicii had wanted one immortal song. This verse was ringing in the ear of Pope, whert with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot, " Friend... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...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. But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Achitophel,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...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. But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Achitophel,... | |
 | 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
...the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that Oppressed the noble seedDavid for him his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had wanted one immortal song ! But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land ; Disdains... | |
 | 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 had wanted one immortal song. But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand; And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Achitophel,... | |
 | 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 had wanted one immortal song. But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand; And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Achitophel,... | |
 | 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 had wanted one immortal song. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achitophel,... | |
 | 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 had wanted one immortal song. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achitophel,... | |
 | 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 had wanted one immortal song. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. 'Achitophel,... | |
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