 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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...can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.3 In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin4 With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ;... | |
 | 1845 - 670 pages
...and far more pleasant. With one slight variation we might almost adopt Dryden's celebrated 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, I'nbribed. unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 628 pages
...ShadesJudge. Character in Absalom and Achitophel. Purchased by a favour to Dryden. " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge ; In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abathdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unbought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 760 pages
...and far more pleasant. With one slight variation we might almost adopt Dryden's celebrated lines, " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge, In Israe1's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 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...no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's trill ,' Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 576 pages
...This estate, situated nearly on the border of Northamptonshire, about six miles * " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge : In Isr'els courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill her did themselves (0 sweetest deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pages
...infactiout 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 statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel*t courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes, or hand* more clean, Vnbribed, unsought,... | |
 | Edward Foss - Courts - 1864 - 438 pages
...of Achitophel, he gives him full credit for judicial integrity, in the following expressive lines : Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman...praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abuthden With more discerning eyes or hands more elean ; Unbrib'd, unbought, the wretched to redress,... | |
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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... 
