 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
 | George Campbell - English language - 1841 - 416 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...|| and yet — afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, jj and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A lim'rous foe, || by flatterers... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...brother near the ihrone, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd lo sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid lo strike. Just hint a fault, and hesilate dislike ; Alike... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd louds, and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations. Every copse Deep-tangled, tre tench the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1845 - 444 pages
...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, II assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach...dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, I! by flatterers besieged, And so obliging || that he ne'er obliged."J With what a masterly... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - English literature - 1990 - 612 pages
...the falsehood served her hateful ends, Congenial audience found in hollow friends; 40 Who to the tale 'assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer'; His friendship o'er me spread that guardian shield, Which his severest virtue best could wield; Repelled... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Quotations, English - 1992 - 1172 pages
...with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease Pope Pope 7 Away at once with love or jealousy! (Ill, iii) 137...than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause: 8 Who but must laugh, if... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...of multiple antitheses: Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teaeh the rest to sneer. Willing to wound, and yet afraid...to strike. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike . . . ('Epistle to Arbuthnot', 201-4) It was when Pope combined Ovidian verse technique with Horatian... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - Social Science - 380 pages
...come out straight; the CVCP is to be talked to about an 'apparent' lack of accountability. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; The half-hidden message of the paragraph is a double one: that accounting is indeed not being exercised... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...throne, 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 timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his litde... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 292 pages
...gloss on Pope's character of Addison ("Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" [1734]) as one who is accustomed to Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend . . . (11. 201-6) The crucial,... | |
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