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" 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 Poetical Works of John Dryden: Edited with a Memoir, Revised Text, and Notes - Page 85
by John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 662 pages
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - 1760 - 448 pages
...zeal to cancel private crimes. How fafe is treafon, and how facred ill, Where none can fin againft the people's will ? Where crowds can wink, and no...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deferv'd no enemy can grudge ; The ftatefman we abhor, but praife the judge. In Ifrael's...
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The Works of the English Poets

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...zeal to cancel private crimes. How fafe is treafon, and how facred ill, V/here none can fm againft the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ? Yet fame deferv'd no enemy can grudge ; The ftatefman we abhor, but praife the judge. In Ifrael's...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Part 1

John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...(vol. i. partii. p. 135 — -i^.) the principal alterations made in the second edition are noticed. " 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's...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Issue 1

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 pages
...(vol. i. partii. p. 135 — 142. the principal alterations made in the second edition are noticed. " 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's...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ...

John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...Irish pronunciation, he probably, when he came to England, adopted the new spelling of his name, •' 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's...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1801 - 416 pages
...proves, in factious times, ll With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and now sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ? Where crowds can wink, and no offence b« known, Since in another's guilt they find their ova ? Bit Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge...
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Poetical Works

John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...So easy still it proves, in factious times. With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe it treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against...will? Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Siuce in another's guilt they find their own? Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman...
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland ..., Volume 3

Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 pages
...himself praises his conduct whilst he administered this great office, saying of him, " Yet 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 hands more clean j Unbrib'd, unsought, the wretched to redress,...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 9

John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...Introduction. i So easy still it proves in factious times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none...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's...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pages
...predicarment : So easy still it proves in factions times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none...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's...
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