 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
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1853 - 706 pages
...regard and respect fe Mr. Madison. This, I confess, is following IDS direction of the poet, who says: " Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; " And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." But let us inquire if the President had any knowledge that Mr. Erskine had no full power: for if I... | |
 | bart Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges - Authors - 1834 - 468 pages
...never heard it : but I had to encounter cold, freezing, palsying looks ; and every one knew how to Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ! These assertions will be deemed very querulous; but if they are true, the epithet is not applicable... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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...a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to hlame or to commend; 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools ; by flatterers besieg'dv And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...hrother near the throne, View him with scornfol, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer l Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pages
...in his nook, Observing little in his reverie, Yet saw this much, which he was glad to see. (1) [*' Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." POPE on Addison.] ft 4 The ghost at least had done him this much good, In making him as silent as a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Эатп s smoking on the ground : E'en to the ships their conquering arms extend, And groans of s ; rVilling to wound, and yet afraid to strike, 'ust hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...rival near Uie 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 civil leer, And, without sneering, others teach to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate... | |
 | 1837 - 790 pages
...in blushes, light that glads the earth." " Blight with a gesture — wither with a sneer." Bulwer. " Damn with faint, praise, — assent with, civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." Pope. " Alas ! each slanderer bears a weapon No honest arm can baffle.1' On the principle "mum caique,"... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And,...teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet affraid to strike; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,... | |
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