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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

John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...wretched to redress, 190 1 1 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 oppressed the noble seed, • 195 David for him his...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 130

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...afterthought. The first edition of the poem contained these lines : — ' Oh ! had ho 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...
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Stanzas on the death of Oliver Cromwell; Astræa redux; Annus mirabilis ...

John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 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 oppressed the noble seed, 195 David for him his tuneful...
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Golden leaves from the works of poets and painters, ed. by R. Bell

Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 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...
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Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux; Annus Mirabilis ...

John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 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 oppressed the noble seed, 195 David for him his tuneful...
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Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux; Annus Mirabilis ...

John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 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 oppressed the noble seed, 195 David for him his tuneful...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh 1 had he been content to serve 0 rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...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...
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Dryden: Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell; Astraea Redux; Annus ...

John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 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 oppressed the noble seed, 195 David for him his tuneful...
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The English Poets: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...in the second edition. The Abbelkdia was the Jewish Chief Justice. 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...
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