 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 486 pages
...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...? Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but prai'e the judge. Jn Israel't courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes, or hands more cleant Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch^ and easy o/occeH."J admitted... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...added the four following lines in praise of the earl's conduct as lord-chancellor. " In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or...to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." Shaftesbury, now thoroughly disgusted with political life, resolved to bid a final adieu to the scene... | |
 | Benjamin Martyn - 1836 - 882 pages
...and therefore celebrated his conduct as lord chancellor in the following lines : In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or...to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. When King Charles read these lines, which were not in the first edition, he told Dryden that he had... | |
 | Benjamin Martyn, Andrew Kippis, George Wingrove Cooke - 1836 - 468 pages
...and therefore celebrated his conduct as lord chancellor in the following lines : In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or...to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. When King Charles read these lines, which were not in the first edition, he told Dryden that he had... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...can wink, and no otfence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame descrv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, tha wretched to redress Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve ihe... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...lord-chancellor. " In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abctlidin With more discerning eyes or hands more elean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." Shaftesbury, now thoroughly disgusted with political life, resolved to bid a final adieu to the scene... | |
 | Great Britain - 1839 - 466 pages
...Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge j The statesmen we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts...Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress .; Swift of despatch, and easy of acccu. The 4th of July was a very sultry day, and the council chamber at Whitehall... | |
 | 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...clean, " Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress j 447 WILL OP JOHN WAKEMAN, THE LAST ADBOT OP TEWKESBORY AND FIRST BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER. [Extracted... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1843 - 252 pages
...severity of his original description of the Earl's character by adding these lines : " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." On the indictment... | |
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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! 
