 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch and easy of access. Oh had he been... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 436 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,... | |
 | W. Thomas - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 248 pages
...wink; and no offence be known, Since in anothers guilt they find their own. [185] Yet, Fame deserv'd, no Enemy can grudge; The Statesman we abhor, but praise the Judge. In Israels Courts ne'r sat an Abbethdin With more discerning Eyes, or Hands more clean: Unbrib'd, unsought,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...Shaftesbury by adding in the second edition of the poem praise of his capacity as a judge: Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...can wink; and no offence be known, Since in anothers guilt they find their own. Yet, fame deserved, no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israels courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean: Unbribed, unsought,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...for displaying discrimination, as Dryden does here in assessing his Achitophel: "Yet, Fame deserv'd, no Enemy can grudge; / The Statesman we abhor, but praise the Judge." It works brilliantly in defining the paradoxes of human character; again, Dryden's Zimri: "So over... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 362 pages
...England's) courts. The Statesman we abhor, but praise the Judge. In Israels Courts ne'r sat an Abbethdin With more discerning Eyes, or hands more clean: Unbrib'd,...unsought, the Wretched to redress; Swift of Dispatch, and easie of Access. Oh, had he been content to serve the Crown, With vertues only proper to the Gown .... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 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 the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an abbethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean: Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 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 the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin0 With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, 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! 
