 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will! Where...the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where...the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1064 pages
...factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, =l q deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...praises the conduct of his lordship, while he filled this great office, in the following lines : " Yet fame deserved, no enemy can grudge, The statesman...the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...from what is no real evil. — Jlddiaon. CCCCLXXXII. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill. When none can sin against the people's will; Where crowds...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! Dryden. CCCCLXXXIII. Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...grief from what is no real evil. — MKson. CCCCLXXXIL How safe is treason, and how sacred ill. When none can sin against the people's will; Where crowds...known. Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Dryden. CCCCLXXXIIL Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...factious times, iw> With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ? Where...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? ias Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 656 pages
...he died on Jan. 28th 1682-3. Dryden, in the 2d edition of Absalom and Achitophel, said of him — " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge •, " The Statesman...Judge. " In Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, " With more discerning eyes, with hands more " clean ; " Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...in the warmest terms. " Yet fame deserved," he says, '•' No enemy can grudge , The statesman vie abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ? Where...crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another't guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor,... | |
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With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy... 
