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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
edited by - 1810
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke : Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurped a , all the works of art, all the labours of men, are...simple, and everywhere the same, overspreads the whole deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...foreign yoke ; Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. [s So 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, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er...
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Favorite Odes and Poems: By Collins, Dryden and Marvell

William Collins - 1877 - 104 pages
...shook, And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke : Then seized with fear, yet still affecting 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. In Israel's courts ne'er...
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Dryden: Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell; Astraea Redux; Annus ...

John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves in factious times 180 With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe...known, Since in another's guilt they find their own! 185 Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...ne'er believed Until they come to act. SIR J. DENHAM. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, When none can sin against the people's will : Where crowds...can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's ill they find their own. DRYDEN. 'Tis policy For son and father to take different sides; Then lands...
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The English Poets: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke ; Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting 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. In Israel's courts ne'er...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke : Then, seizud witli fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves,...no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they fiud their own I Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; . The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge....
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The Witty and Humorous of the English Poets: With Specimens Arranged in Periods

William Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...And fitted [England] for a foreign yoke ; Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves,...Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since on another's guilt they found their own ! Dryden's portrait of the Duke of Buckingham as Zimri is still...
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Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...still affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves in factious times 2 With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe...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...
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The English Poets, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...still affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves in factious times2 With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe...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...
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