 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 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;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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 Abethdiu With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! 185 Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! 185 Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved ur early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. POETS. JOHN MILTON. Sfntttt ' On Ais Blindness Abbethdint With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | William Collins - 1877 - 104 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,... | |
 | James Moncreiff (1st baron.) - 1878 - 714 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, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! 185 Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 pages
...words stir up anger. Note. — But is the leading Antithetic conjunction in English. Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. 256. Ellipsis is the leaving out or the omission of words which are necessary to give the full or regular... | |
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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! 
