 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own 1 Yet fame deserv'd r-heard'st, ere despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper... | |
 | 1845 - 672 pages
...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...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 - 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 - 758 pages
...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 - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...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...Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...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...Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. * A Jewish word for judge. Shaftesbury had been Lord Chancellor. Oh !... | |
 | Civilization - 1846 - 506 pages
...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... | |
 | 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
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! Yet fame deserv'd fall speedily, And in their general ruin let me go....to : * than for thee To hold me foul. Peri. 0 yo despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper... | |
 | Edward Foss - Courts - 1864 - 438 pages
...gives him full credit for judicial integrity, in the following expressive lines : Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but 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! 
