 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 464 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; NOTES. towards him,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 716 pages
...Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike resolv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious...flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged : Who would not smile, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ?" No figure,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. much better than he had used Pope, on that account,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...they View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; NOTES. much better than he had used Pope, on that account,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. much better than he had used Pope, on that account,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd w, And what Timotheus was, is Dryden now. Avoid extremes;...to take offence, That always shows great pride, or reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 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...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; * Spence's Anec. p. 149. Singer's ed. Alike reserved to blame, > or to commend, A timorous foe, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 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...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; * Spence's Anec. p. 149. Singer's ed. Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 462 pages
...brother near the throne, View whim with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, aud hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend... | |
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