 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...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...weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...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...weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...noble s-eed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, Atid heaven had wanted one immortal song. But wait on female pride ; Let nature suidc • Achiiophrl, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and la/.y happiness, Disdaiu'd the golden fruit... | |
 | 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 - 644 pages
...noble seedDavid 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 the golden fruit to gather free, And lends the crowd his arm to shake the tree.' But all... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...noble seed , David for him hii tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had wanted one immortal son; But wild ambition loves to slide not stand: And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's laud. Achitophel, grown weary to possess ; A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdaiu'd the gulden... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...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...weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Rlsdain'd the -golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1810 - 722 pages
...noble seed David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heav'n had wanted one immortal song. But wild -ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land." " A martial hero, first, with early care, Blown, like a pigmy by the winds, to war; A beardless chief,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to poflefs 200 A lawful fame, and lazy happinefs, Difdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to make the tree. Now, manifeft of crimes contriv'd long finer, He flood at bold defiance with his prince... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pages
...Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to poflefs 200 A lawful fame, and lazy happinefs, Difdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to fhake the tree. Now, manifeft of crimes contriv'd long fince, lie ftood at bold defiance with his prince... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pages
...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...free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree." In 'the Medal' he adds: " Yet should thy crimes succeed, should lawless power Compass those ends thy... | |
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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 oppress'd the noble seed; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heaven had wanted one immortal song.... 
