 | 1832 - 406 páginas
...in the warmest terms. " Yet fame deserved," he says, '•' No enemy can grudge , The statesman vie abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access." July 27. — An eclipse of the sun will take place oa this day, which... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 656 páginas
...he died on Jan. 28th 1682-3. Dryden, in the 2d edition of Absalom and Achitophel, said of him — " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge •, " The Statesman...ne'er sat an Abethdin, " With more discerning eyes, with hands more " clean ; " Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, " Swift of dispatch, and easy... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 654 páginas
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin...discerning eyes or hands more clean — Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access ; O had he been content to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 páginas
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin...discerning eyes or hands more clean — Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access ; O had he been content to... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 516 páginas
...but praise the Judge. " In Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, " With more discerning eyes, with hands more " clean ; " Unbribed, unsought, the wretched...redress, " Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." (Malone.) When the King one day, either in jest, or out of pique, said to Lord Shaftesbury, " Thou... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 páginas
...allude to his having changed his opinion, when he found it unpopular, as we have observed above, down to Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. O. The pillars of the public safety shook ; And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke : Then seiz'd with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 páginas
...Where crowds 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,... | |
 | 1834 - 612 páginas
...Cases in Chancery. See 8 Am. Jurist, 273. Shaftsbury, Earl of, (Lord Chancellor.) • In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, • Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress; Swifl of despatch and easy of access, , Oh ! had he... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 páginas
...will ? Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another't guilt they find their own ? 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 páginas
...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, Unbrib'd, 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 ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own. 
