 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 Seiten
...fame deserved 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, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 Seiten
...fame deserved 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, Unbrited, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. A report was circulated,... | |
 | 1809 - 954 Seiten
...integrity of his character : ' In Isranl'soouit ne'er satán Abetlidin With more discerning eyes and band* more clean : Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of accesg.' " Farther, Mr. Hume is pleased to inform us, ' that lord Shaftes' bury was reckoned a deist... | |
 | 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 - 644 Seiten
...praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. 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 dispatch, and easy of access ; O had he been... | |
 | 1809 - 402 Seiten
...In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abctbdin With morp discerning eyes, or bauds morf clean, Unlirth'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the ranknesa... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...In Israel's courts ne'er sat »n Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands mote clean, Unbrib'il, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown VV ith virtues only proper to the gown : Or had the rankntsj... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...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...to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtues only proper to the gown ; Or had the rankness... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - 1810 - 722 Seiten
...fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we ahhor, but praise the judge. In Isr'el's courts, ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or...to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues, only proper to the gown — Or had the rankness... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 540 Seiten
...edition of the poem, the four following lines, iu celebration of the earl's conduct as lord chancellor. " In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean, Unbrih'd, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." Notwithstanding... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 828 Seiten
...Shaftesbury ii said to hare given rise to the following addi:ional lines in the second edition : " In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." But Malone observes... | |
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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. Oh! had he been content to serve the crown, With -virtues only proper to the gown;... 
