 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 strani
...private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill Where none can sin against the people's will ! an those that have more coying to be 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 strani
...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...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 - 672 strani
...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...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, I'nbribed. unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." " Swift of dispatch"... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 628 strani
...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,... | |
 | 1845 - 758 strani
...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,... | |
 | 1846 - 506 strani
...an excellent judge, more from natural than any knowledge of law. Dryden has celebrated him : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsougbt, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." The third Earl... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 strani
...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 see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 strani
...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 - 1846 - 576 strani
...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 - 1847 - 712 strani
...private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill Where none can sin against the people's will ! The wolf, or winter's rage, summer's great heat,...And want of water, rots, or what to us Of ill is yet deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
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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. 
