 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...  The Poetical Works - Page 108by Alexander Pope - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; * Pope was persuaded, that it was his own; but this is not now believed to have been the case, as... | |
 | 1817 - 396 pages
...claims; they 'are as Łull of envy as they are devoid of talent; they, in the words of Pope ; — . Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And...sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. RULES TO DISCOVER MARRIED COUPLES IN... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...hruther near the throne, View him with scoroful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with...hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to hlame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, hy flatterers hesieged,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise : Blame with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without...; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike resolv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous for, and a suspicious friend; Di-eading e'en fools, by... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd , and who reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading cv'n fools, by... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...hrother near his throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise. Damn with faint praise, |[ assent...hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike ; Alike resolv'd to hlame, or to commend, . A timorous foe, () and — a suspicious friend : Dreading e'en... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1820 - 886 pages
...enough. It was not exactly what it had been described by an honourable gentleman opposite. They did not Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Theirs was certainly no praise at all ; and as certainly, nothing like civility ; but, as to sneers,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with...besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, 205 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; towards him, he had... | |
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