 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve forth he fares, all toil defies: Misfortune rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | 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 - 650 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 seed — David for him his tuneful... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...wretched to redress ; 190 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 ; 195 David for him his... | |
 | John Bayley Sommers Carwithen - 1833 - 426 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 oppressed the noble seed; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he heen content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown , Or had the rankness of the soil heen freed From cockle, that oppress'd the nohle seed ; David for him his tuneful... | |
 | Great Britain - 1839 - 466 pages
...shape of " an instrument drawn up by the consent and advice of the 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 htm his tuneful... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...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... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 584 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 rank ness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed, David for him his tuneful... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...* A Jewish word for judge. Shaftesbury had been Lord Chancellor. 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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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. 
