 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 480 ページ
...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,... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1851 - 380 ページ
...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 ページ
...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 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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 ページ
...factious times, 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...in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, hut praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 ページ
...factious times, With public zeftl to cancel private crimes ; How safe is treason, and how sacred ill Where none can sin against the people's will \ Where crowds...in another's guilt they find their own \ Yet fame dcserv'd no enemy can gruilgp ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the j udge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 ページ
...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1854 - 284 ページ
...private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will I Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 ページ
...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,... | |
 | 1855 - 834 ページ
...factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crime». How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 ページ
...factious times, 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...in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.4 In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
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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 ! Yet fame deserved no enemy... 
