 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known* Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserv'd, no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; \Fnbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 372 pages
...fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statement we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or...Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access ?" Chailes II. used to say of the same nobleman, that he possessed in... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...the popular party, to escape the odium attached to the measures he had himself recommended. Note XI. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning, eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. — P. 223. In... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...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 we abhor, but praise...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh! had he been... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning 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 to the gown ; Or had the rankness... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known. Since in another's guilt they find their own? Yet fame deserv'd elements their souls retire : The Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Ye't fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh!, had he been... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Law - 1825 - 338 pages
...praises his conduct while he administered that great office, saying of him,— " Yet fame deserved, no enemy can grudge, The Statesman we abhor, but praise...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more ctean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." " Yet... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...conduct of his lordship, while he filled this great office, in the following lines : " Yet fame deserved, no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise...Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access !" Charles II. used to say of the same noblemau, that he possessed in... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...integrity of his character : " In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes, and hands more clean: Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched...to redress. Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." RARE SELF-DENIAL. The Emperor of Germany, Joseph II., having a vacant office, which he wished to confer... | |
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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! 
