 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...will ? Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known* Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserv'd, no enemy can grudge ; The statesman...praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; \Fnbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 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 Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known. Since in another's guilt they find their own? re, To their first elements their souls retire : The Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Ye't fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...conduct of his lordship, while he filled this great office, in the following lines : " Yet fame deserved, no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 656 pages
...28th 1682-3. Dryden, in the 2d edition of Absalom and Achitophel, said of him — " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge •, " The Statesman we abhor,...praise the Judge. " In Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, " With more discerning eyes, with hands more " clean ; " Unbribed, unsought, the wretched... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...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 - Chivalry - 1834 - 486 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...can wink, and no otfence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame descrv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, tha wretched to redress... | |
 | Great Britain - 1839 - 466 pages
...Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge j The statesmen we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, 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, Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! 
