 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 páginas
...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...to the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed; s, Here But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Achitophel,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...the gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From eoekle, that oppress'd the noble seed ; this ehurlish soul. But now the elouds in airy tumult fly ; The sun emerging opes a But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's iee prefers to virtue's land. Aehitophel,... | |
 | 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 - 1832 - 654 páginas
...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; Disdains... | |
 | 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 - 1832 - 650 páginas
...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 I But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land ; Disdains... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 páginas
...gown ; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed ; 195 David for him his tuneful harp had strung, ' And heaven had wanted one immortal song. 179 Usurp'da patriot's all-atoning name] The first edition reads : Assum'da patron's all-atoning name.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 474 páginas
...hnrpîmd ptninç, And Heaven had Wiuitcd опешшитЫ son-r. This verse was ringin» in the car of Pope, when with equal modesty and felicity he adopted it, in addressing his friend DrArhuthnot, * Friend of my life ! which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an iule son... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 páginas
...the gown , Or had the rankness of the soil heen freed From cockle, that oppress'd the nohle seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had wanted one immortal song. But wild Amhition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achitophel,... | |
 | 1839 - 466 páginas
...Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppress'd the noble seed, David for htm his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had wanted one immortal song ! 13ut wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Achitophel,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...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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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. 
