 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...and Sweden. 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 gujlt they find their own! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise... | |
 | W. Thomas - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 248 pages
...wink; and no offence be known, Since in anothers guilt they find their own. [185] 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
...picture of 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...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 sin against the peoples will: Where crowds can wink; and no offence be known, Since in anothers guilt they find their own. Yet, fame deserved, no...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
...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
...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 abbethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean: Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 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 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 ! Yet fame deserved no enemy... 
