 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
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...grief from what is no real evil. — Addison. CCCCI.XXXII 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 ! Drydeti. CCCCI.XXXIII. I.ove seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning;, and our disposition... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...all-atoning name. So easy still it proves, in factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none...the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no ofl'ence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge,... | |
 | Archer Polson - Law - 1858 - 212 pages
...whose elevation was due to his political talents, is said by Dryden to have made an able Chancellor. "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,... | |
 | South Carolina Historical Society - South Carolina - 1858 - 350 pages
...will be more indebted for his fame to these lines, than to all that has been written in his behalf: " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge The Statesman...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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another'! guilt they tee their own. 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 morp discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress... | |
 | North American review - 1860 - 634 pages
...the character which Dryden interpolated in the second edition of " Absalom and Achitophel " : — " 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,... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...all-atoning name. So easy still it proves, in factious 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's courts... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...all-atoning name. So easy still it proves, in factious 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's... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 356 pages
...all-atoning name. So easy still it proves, in factious times, JVith public zeal to canet 1 private crimes. / How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, \Where none can sin against the people's will ! Achitophel, weary of possessing ' A lawful fame and lazy happiness,' enters into deep intrigues and... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...all-atoning name ; So easy still it proves, in factious 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's... | |
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