 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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
...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...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;... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...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...praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, TJnbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress... | |
 | Cornwall (England : County) - 1862 - 500 pages
...way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. . . Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 436 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,... | |
 | Edward Foss - Courts - 1864 - 432 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 clean ; Unbrib'd, unbought, 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 ! Yet fame deserved no enemy... 
