| James Bennett - 1840 - 494 pages
...commanding orator, and the upright judge ;" and these sentiments are echoed even by Dryden himself — " 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, " Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress... | |
| Edward Foss - 1843 - 252 pages
...severity of his original description of the Earl's character by adding these 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, Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress,... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own 1 But that thou over-heard'st, ere Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 628 pages
...Erroneous opinion that ShadesJudge. Character in Absalom and Achitophel. Purchased by a favour to Dryden. " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman...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 - 672 pages
...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 Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, I'nbribed. unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
| English literature - 1845 - 758 pages
...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,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...will ! Where 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...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...trill ,' Where 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...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'cl 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... | |
| William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 584 pages
...county of Bucks. 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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