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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. "
The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ... - Page 119
by John Dryden - 1767
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Collated with the Best Editions:

John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...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 his tuneful...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 46

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
...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...
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Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for ..., Volume 8

Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1810 - 722 pages
...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...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...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...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden., Esq: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 1

John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...gown ; Or had the ranknefs of the foil been freed, From cockle, that opprefs'd the noble feed ; 195 David for him his tuneful harp had ftrung, And heaven...wanted one immortal fong. But wild Ambition loves to flide, not ftand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to poflefs 200...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 4

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 4

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 24

British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...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...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...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...
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