 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 страници
...will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be 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.3 In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin4 With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 страници
...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. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 страници
...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. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 страници
...This estate, situated nearly on the border of Northamptonshire, about six miles * " Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge : In Isr'els courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 страници
...can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! Yet fame deserv'd fall speedily, And in their general ruin let me go. Amo. I pray thcc, gentle shepherd, wish not to Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 страници
...will ? Where crowds can wink, and no offence be 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 courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes, or hand* more clean, Vnbribed, unsought,... | |
 | John Bayly Somers Carwithen - 1849 - 632 страници
...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,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 480 страници
...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 - 1852 - 378 страници
...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,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 страници
...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;... | |
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