 | Archer Polson - Law - 1858 - 212 pages
...due to his political talents, is said by Dryden to have made an able Chancellor. "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... | |
 | South Carolina Historical Society - South Carolina - 1858 - 350 pages
...indebted for his fame to these lines, than to all that has been written in his behalf: " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge The Statesman we abhor, but praise the Judge, In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdiu With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another'! guilt they tee their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin* With morp discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of... | |
 | Portraits - 1859 - 112 pages
...as a judge, in his ' Absalom and Achitophel,' is. familiar to every reader of English poetry : — " 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 despatch, and easy of access." His versatile... | |
 | North American review - 1860 - 634 pages
...which Dryden interpolated in the second edition of " Absalom and Achitophel " : — " 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 despatch and easy of access." A much better authority... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 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 despatch and easy of access. Oh, had he been... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, TJnbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | National portrait gallery - 1862 - 116 pages
...as a judge, in his " Absalom and Achithopel," is familiar to every reader of English poetry : — " 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 despatch, and easy of access." His versatile... | |
 | Cornwall (England : County) - 1862 - 500 pages
...way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. . . Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 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 hands more clean, UnbribVl, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." Shaftesbury, now... | |
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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! 
