 | Henry Duff Traill - 1886 - 256 pages
...against the splendid and, in its connection, quite unexpected tribute of Dryden : — 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, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 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,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! Yet fame deserved Townsend Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...can wink, and no offence Ixknown, ISO 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 Abbethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; 185 Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress;... | |
 | W. Thomas - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 248 pages
...(and discerning) the author is than by graciously granting the praiseworthy performance as a judge? Yet, Fame deserv'd, no Enemy can grudge; The Statesman we abhor, but praise the Judge. In Israels Courts ne'r sat an Abbethdin With more discerning Eyes, or Hands more clean: Unbrib'd, unsought,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...Shaftesbury by adding in the second edition of the poem praise of his capacity as a judge: 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,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...can wink; and no offence be known, Since in anothers guilt they find their own. Yet, fame deserved, no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israels courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean: Unbribed, unsought,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...is a fine instrument for displaying discrimination, as Dryden does here in assessing his Achitophel: "Yet, Fame deserv'd, no Enemy can grudge; / The Statesman we abhor, but praise the Judge." It works brilliantly in defining the paradoxes of human character; again, Dryden's Zimri: "So over... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 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 abbethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean: Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 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 Abbethdin0 With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, 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! 
