 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...own ! " Yet 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...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, " Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." One of his adversaries' asserts, that for this addition, Dryden was... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...own ! " Yet 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...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, " Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." One of his adversaries1 asserts, that for this addition, Dryden was... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...four following lines, in celebration of the Earl's conduct as Lord Chancellor : " In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin, " With more discerning eyes,...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, " Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." " When King Charles the Second read these lines, lie told Drydcn, that... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
..." The Statesman we abhor, but praise the Judge : •' In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abctlulin, " With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean ; "...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress; " Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." One of his adversaries' asserts, that for this addition, Dryden was... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...find their own ? Yet 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...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtue only proper... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...find their own ? Yet 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...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress ; Swift of dispatch, and easy of access. Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown, With virtue only proper... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...said to hare given rise to the following additional lines in the second edition : " In Israel's court ne'er sat an Abethdin, With more discerning eyes,...Unbribed, unsought. the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." Rut Malone observes that there were eight more added lines, besides... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 828 pages
...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,...Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." But Malone observes that there were eight more added lines, betides... | |
 | 1812 - 576 pages
...and in order at * In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or handa mxire 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 onlv suited to the gown. ' &c. &c Absalom... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...find their own ! Yet 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...Unbribed, 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... | |
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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... 
