 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 486 pages
...Where crowds can wink, and no offence be knomi, Since in another's guilt they fold their own F Yetfame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel'* courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...factious times, With puhlic 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 he known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 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 otfence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame descrv'd no enemy can grudge... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 278 pages
...his best To save himself, and hang the rest. BCTLER. 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. Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven Red with uncommon... | |
 | Statesmen - 1839 - 466 pages
...factious times, u '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 oflfbnce be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1840 - 374 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... | |
 | James Bennett - 1840 - 494 pages
...the upright judge ;" and these sentiments are echoed even by Dryden himself — " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge : " The statesman we abhor, but...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 j 447... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, / With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift... | |
 | Edward FOSS - 1843 - 252 pages
...softened the severity of his original description of the Earl's character by adding these 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, Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill ut trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than...strange. I -houlil have been more strange, I must confe 1 Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's... | |
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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... 
