 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...  The London Quarterly Review - Стр. 1681871Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - Страниц: 554
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman...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... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - Страниц: 516
...may be summed up in the vigorous stanza of Dryden : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed,...to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." All accounts agree in representing him as in private life one of the kindest and gentlest of mortals,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - Страниц: 252
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman'...praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin l With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | 1882 - Страниц: 972
...do homage to Lord Shaftesbury when on the woolsack. In the second edition of his satire he wrote : Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge The statesman...praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abdethin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - Страниц: 348
...wink, and no offence be known, Since iiTanother's guilt theyBiid lllUlr own ! iss Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - Страниц: 326
...his having changed his opinion, when he found it unpopular, as we have observed above, down to Vet fame deserved no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. D. The pillars of the public safety shook ; And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke : Then seiz'd with... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - Страниц: 532
...Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; TJnbribctl, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." Shafteshury retained the seals till November 1673, when he was dismissed from office, no doubt by the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - Страниц: 556
...having changed his opinion, when he found it unpopular, as we have observed above, down to Yftfame ar'd, When, issuing naked, to the wondering herd, He charm'd their ey jttdgr. With all his failings It is on every hand allowed, tbit the business of the chancery was never... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - Страниц: 534
...famous Earl of Shaftesbury, on whom the well-known lines of Dryden long conferred an unmerited lustre. ' Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge, The statesman...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1868 - Страниц: 554
...statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discuruing eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper... | |
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