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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? "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ... - Page 523
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...And fitted Israel1 for a foreign yoke : Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting2 fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves,...in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.3 In Israel's courts ne'er...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...shook, And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke ; Then, seiz'd with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurp'da patriot's all-atoning name. , So easy still it proves,...no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own. Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge....
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke ; ) Then, seiz'd with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurp'da patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves,...sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's trill ,' Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they see their own....
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke ; J Then, seiz'd with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurp'da patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves,...to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and bow sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott...

Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pages
...yet still affecting fame, Usurp'da patriot's all-atoning name. So (-'/,"/ still it proves infactiout times, With public zeal to cancel private crimes....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*t courts ne'er...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...shook, And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke : Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurp'da patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves,...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own 1 Yet fame deserr'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...still affecting fame, Usurp'da patriot's all-atoning name. 2M So easy still it proves, in factions times. With public zeal to cancel private crimes ;...in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame descrv'd no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, yet praise the judge. In Israel's court ne'er...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...foreign yoke ; Then sezied with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurp'da patriot's all-atoning name. 80 easy still it proves in factious times, With public...in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, hut praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...Usurp'da patriot's all-ntoning name. So easy still it proves, in factious times, With public zeftl to cancel private crimes ; How safe is treason, and...in another's guilt they find their own \ Yet fame dcserv'd no enemy can gruilgp ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the j udge. In Israel's courts ne'er...
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A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...to dwell with infamy, By those that us'd thom. Brou-n. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, When none can sin against the people's will; Where crowds...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own. Dryden. The man who pauses in the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand — the first step engulphs...
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