 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 Quarterly Review - Strana 311upravili: - 1832Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 str.
...gown f 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, grown weary... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 str.
...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. ' " Character of Lord Shaftesbury."— Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, a mercurial... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 450 str.
...loves to slide, not stand, And leaves for Fortune's ice Tertue's flrme land." Dryden's words are — -- But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land." The circumstance is the more remarkable, because Dryden has really no couplet which would seem to a... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 str.
...Don Sebastiaa, Dorax thus addresses the Mufti :— DRYDEN says of the Earl of Shaftesbury, — David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heaven had wanted one immortal song. — Absalom and Achitop&ct. POPE adopts similar language in addressing his friend Dr. Arbuthnot : —... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 str.
...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...stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 str.
...White-rob'd ambition leads, ignobly proud, To cringe for votes, and coax the fickle crowd. Hwoei. mid. Wild ambition loves to slide, not stand ; And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Drydea, AMBITION-to be Controlled. Ambition is the dropsy of the soul. Whose thirst we must not yield... | |
 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 str.
...ransacked places rather obscure for new ideas. From his Absalom and Achithopel, we take these lines : — "But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land". We now turn to Knolles's History of the Turks, where under a portrait of the Sultan, Mustapha the First,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 str.
...From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung. »*»***» But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand ; And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Achitophel grown weary to possess A lawful fame, a lasting happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 str.
...; Or had the ra.n1rnp.aa of the soil been freed From cockle, that oppressed the noble seed ; David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And Heaven had...stand ; And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdained the golden fruit to... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 str.
...174. • What thin partitions sense from thought divide. POPE. Essag on Jfan. Epistle i. Line 262. But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.* Part i. Line 198. The people's prayer — the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the... | |
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