 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
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 Seiten
...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...Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. * A Jewish word... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 Seiten
...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...Abethdin* With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he... | |
 | 1846 - 506 Seiten
...an excellent judge, more from natural than any knowledge of law. Dryden has celebrated him : — " In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsougbt, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access." The third Earl of Shaftesbury... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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....to : * than for thee To hold me foul. Peri. 0 yo Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 438 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | John Lingard - 1844 - 386 Seiten
...observed that almost all, whether designedly or not, were dissenters, a circumstance which awakened In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed. untaught, the wretched to redress. Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Dryden, dbx. and Aclul. •... | |
 | John Dryden - 1850 - 318 Seiten
...quoted — " Yet fame desei ved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the j udge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." A report was... | |
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