 With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed...  The North American Review - Seite 3981860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 384 Seiten
...praises the conduct of his lordship, while he filled this great office, in the following lines : " Yet fame deserved, no enemy can grudge, The statesman...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access !" Charles II.... | |
 | 1826 - 438 Seiten
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 | John Lingard - 1829 - 392 Seiten
...481. North, 38, 46, 67, 8, CO. It were, however, unfair to omit the praise allotted him by an enemy. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. To their disappointment,... | |
 | 1847 - 770 Seiten
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 | 1832 - 406 Seiten
...in the warmest terms. " Yet fame deserved," he says, '•' No enemy can grudge , The statesman vie abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er...to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access." July 27. — An eclipse of the sun will take place oa this day, which will be visible in England. The... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 656 Seiten
...he died on Jan. 28th 1682-3. Dryden, in the 2d edition of Absalom and Achitophel, said of him — " Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge •, " The Statesman...ne'er sat an Abethdin, " With more discerning eyes, with hands more " clean ; " Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, " Swift of dispatch, and easy... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 Seiten
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin...discerning eyes or hands more clean — Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access ; O had he been content to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 654 Seiten
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin...discerning eyes or hands more clean — Unbribed, unbought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access ; O had he been content to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 Seiten
...allude to his having changed his opinion, when he found it unpopular, as we have observed above, down to Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge, The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. O. The pillars of the public safety shook ; And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke : Then seiz'd with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 Seiten
...Where crowds can wink, and no offence be knomi, Since in another's guilt they fold their own F Yetfame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel'* courts ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought,... | |
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