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 ! Yet fame deserved no enemy... The Poetical Works of John Dryden - Page 93by John Dryden - 1900 - 559 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pages
...all-atoning name. So (-'/,"/ still it proves infactiout times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none...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*t... | |
| Edward Foss - Courts - 1864 - 438 pages
...of Achitophel, he gives him full credit for judicial integrity, in the following expressive lines : Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman...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
...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 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,... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...all-atoning name. 2M So easy still it proves, in factions times. With public zeal to cancel private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill Where none...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame descrv'd no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, yet praise the judge. In Israel's... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...[LECT. XXffl So easy still it proves, in factions times. With public zeal to cancel private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill Where none...known. Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, yet praise the judge. In Israel's... | |
| 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,... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...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 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,... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...to dwell with infamy, By those that us'd thom. Brou-n. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, When none can sin against the people's will; Where crowds...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own. Dryden. The man who pauses in the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand — the first step engulphs... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...sought the storms. And again, at the close of the same passage, there is direct testimony to worth — Yet fame deserved 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. Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress;... | |
| Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...Where crowds 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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