 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Počet stránok 692
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own 1 Yet fame deserv'd r-heard'st, ere Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 672
...and far more pleasant. With one slight variation we might almost adopt Dryden's celebrated lines, " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge The statesman...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, I'nbribed. unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." " Swift of dispatch"... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - Počet stránok 628
...ShadesJudge. Character in Absalom and Achitophel. Purchased by a favour to Dryden. " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge ; In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abathdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unbought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 758
...and far more pleasant. With one slight variation we might almost adopt Dryden's celebrated lines, " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge, In Israe1's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - Počet stránok 490
...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 we abhor, but praise the judge.3 In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin4 With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Počet stránok 282
...crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Počet stránok 416
...crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but...Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. * A Jewish word... | |
 | 1846 - Počet stránok 502
...excellent judge, more from natural sagacity than any knowledge of law. Dryden has celebrated him : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." The third Earl of Shaftesbury was also a remarkable man. His collected... | |
 | 1846 - Počet stránok 506
...an excellent judge, more from natural than any knowledge of law. Dryden has celebrated him : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsougbt, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." The third Earl of Shaftesbury... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - Počet stránok 576
...This estate, situated nearly on the border of Northamptonshire, about six miles * " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge : In Isr'els courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought,... | |
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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. 
