 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1860 - 634 páginas
...the character which Dryden interpolated in the second edition of " Absalom and Achitophel " : — " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge, The statesman...Unbribed, unsought the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access." A much better authority on this point than Dryden, however, Lord Campbell,... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 páginas
...will; Where crowds 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...Unbribed, 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 to... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 páginas
...will ! Where crowds 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...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 páginas
...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...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." His versatile but always most able and active politics were conspicuous... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1862 - 532 páginas
...may be summed up in the vigorous stanza of Dryden : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abetbdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." All accounts agree in representing him as in private life one of the... | |
 | 1862 - 500 páginas
...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 - 1863 - 846 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, UnbribVl, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." Shaftesbury, now... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 páginas
...will ! Where crowds 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...to redress ; Swift of dispatch and easy of access. Oh had he been content to serve the crown With virtue only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 436 páginas
...the name of Achitophel, he gives him full credit for judicial integrity, in the following expressive lines : Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The...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 ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own. 
