With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy... The Works of the English Poets - Page 127de Samuel Johnson - 1779Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 pages
...zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ? Where crowds can wink, and no...in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserv'd, no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where .owds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no...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's courts ne'er... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against st me, dear ! good-humuur can prevail, When airs, and flights, and deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no...in another's guilt they find their own ! Ye't fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...evil. — Jlddiaon. CCCCLXXXII. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill. When none can sin against the people's will; Where crowds can wink, and no offence...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! Dryden. CCCCLXXXIII. Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...real evil. — MKson. CCCCLXXXIL How safe is treason, and how sacred ill. When none can sin against the people's will; Where crowds can wink, and no offence...known. Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Dryden. CCCCLXXXIIL Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our... | |
| John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ? Where crowds can wink, and no...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? ias Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pages
...zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ? Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another't guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor,... | |
| John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ? Where crowds can wink, and no otfence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame descrv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er... | |
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