 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! l is yet unknown, fall speedily, And in their general...go. Amo. I pray thcc, gentle shepherd, wish not to Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own 1 Yet fame dcserv'd ant posies ; A cap of flowers and a kirtle, Embroider'd Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress.... | |
 | Edward Foss - Courts - 1864 - 438 pages
...gives him full credit for judicial integrity, in the following expressive lines : Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but 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,... | |
 | John Bayly Somers Carwithen - 1849 - 632 pages
...technical skill, must be told ; but history will lay down the pen, and join in the strains of poetry : — "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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own 1 Yet fame deserr'd le for one of hi« pluye. The allusion to Eiiater Juy ¡9 founded upon a beautiful old superstition Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 480 pages
...celebrated lines in praise of his judicial character in " ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." u Yet fame deservM 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,... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1851 - 380 pages
...Shaftesbury's career by the same poetic pen whose keen satire we have just quoted : — " 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... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son. 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,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...And again, at the close of the same passage, there is direct testimony to worth — 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;... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own I Vet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courte ne'er sat an Л belli din With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribcd, 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! 
