 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
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 432 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 clean ; Unbrib'd, unbought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1864 - 436 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,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 Seiten
...will, Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! nnet embodi Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress,... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 Seiten
...will! Where crowds can wink, and no offence Ixknown, ISO Since in another's guilt they find their own! Abbethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; 185 Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress;... | |
 | W. Thomas - 1978 - 248 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1993 - 514 Seiten
...will: Where crowds can wink; and no offence be known, Since in anothers guilt they find their own. Yet, fame deserved, no enemy can 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 - 2007 - 764 Seiten
...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 - 2002 - 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...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 - 2003 - 1024 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...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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