 | John Bayly Somers Carwithen - 1849 - 632 pages
...told ; but history will lay down the pen, and join in the strains of poetry : — "Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...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... | |
 | John Lingard - 1844 - 386 pages
...observed that almost all, whether designedly or not, were dissenters, a circumstance which awakened In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed. untaught, the wretched to redress. Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Dryden, dbx.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own 1 ined Heiricka >imile for one of hi« pluye. The allusion...morning. [SoMG. — 'Tit now, tince I sat down bef despatch, and easy of access. Oh 1 had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper... | |
 | John Dryden - 1850 - 318 pages
...quoted — " Yet fame desei ved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the j udge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more...redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." A report was circulated that this addition was made in consequence of Shaftesbury's having conferred... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 480 pages
...celebrated lines in praise of his judicial character in " ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." u Yet fame deservM no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise...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... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1851 - 380 pages
...Shaftesbury's career by the same poetic pen whose keen satire we have just quoted : — " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, yet praise the judge. In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or...to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper for the gown; Or had the rankness... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...their own \ Yet fame dcserv'd no enemy can gruilgp ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the j udge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 538 pages
..." In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With mure discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbrib'J, 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... | |
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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! 
