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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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Masters of English Literature

Edwin Watts Chubb - English literature - 1914 - 492 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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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 Swift of despatch and easy of access. Oh! had he been content to serve the cold crown rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, 195 David for him his tuneful...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve . Secondly, A/ rankness of the soil been freed 110 From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful...
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The Satires of Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, The Medal, Mac Flecknoe ...

John Dryden - 1923 - 196 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, , David for him his tuneful...
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Dryden: Poetry & Prose: With Essays by Congreve, Johnson, Scott and Others

John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 pages
...the 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 oppressed the noble seed, 195 David for him his tuneful...
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The Copeland Reader: An Anthology of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1

Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access. Oh! had he been content to serve 926 rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...unsought, the wretched to redress; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. O, had he been content to serve M(z); rankness of the soil been freed 190 From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed: David for him his tuneful...
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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Volume 3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...unsought, 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 oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful...
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Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible: Volume 1 ...

Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 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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Restoration Literature: An Anthology

Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...the wretched to redress, 190 Swift of despatch, 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...
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