 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 strani
...Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess "\ Л lawful fame, and lazy happiness, / D sdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. No«-, manifest of crimes contri v'd lone since, He stuod at bold defiance with his prince; I Held... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 strani
...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...his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest of crimes contrived long since, He stood at bold defiance with his prince ; Held up the buckler of the people's... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 strani
...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...his arm to shake the tree. Now manifest of crimes contrived long since, He stood at bold defiance with his prince ; Held up the buckler of the people's... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 strani
...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...his arm to shake the tree. Now manifest of crimes contrived long since, He stood at bold defiance with his prince ; Held up the buckler of the people's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 strani
...David for him his tuneful harp had strung, And heaven had wanted one immortal song. But wild ambition d the.crowd his arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest of crimes contriv'd long since, He stood at bold... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 strani
...But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's iee prefers to virtue's land. Aehitophel, th to dine; And when the tempest first appear'd to...ready warning bid them part in peaee. With still rema erowd bis arm to shake the tree. Now, manifest of erimes eontriv'd long sinee, He stood at bold defianee... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 strani
...name. * * iso — i9i These twelve lines were added in the second edition. • * But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers...Virtue's land. Achitophel, grown weary to possess zoo A lawful fame, and lazy happiness, Disdain'd the golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd... | |
 | 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 strani
...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 the golden fruit to gather free, And lends the crowd his arm to shake the tree.' But all... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 strani
...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...manifest of crimes contriv'd long since, He stood at hold defiancc§ with his prince ; • Thetriple hond hehrokr] in the year 1007, a triple alliance was... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 strani
...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...since, He stood at bold defiance§ with his prince ; • The triple bond he broke] In the year 1667, a triple alliance was entered into between England,... | |
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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. 
