 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...and respect for Mr. Madison. This, I confess, is following the direction of the poet, who says : " Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer ; And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.4 But let ns inquire if the President had any knowledge that Mr. Erskine had no fall power ;... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Authors - 1859 - 268 pages
...ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Boar, like the Turk, no 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 civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Mentioned... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1859 - 460 pages
...Pope : " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no 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, II assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer... | |
 | Peter Geach - Philosophy - 1977 - 186 pages
...orthodoxy with all its most repellent doctrines, and make their repulsiveness come out by innuendo : Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. So I do take Hobbes's theology seriously; but I do not think he can save predestinarianism. I imagine... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...sting without the obvious exaggeration which enables the victim to laugh it off. The memorable lines Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer, refer to Addison 's unwillingness or inability to restrain his "little Senate" from attacking Pope.... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...stupid, and damp the pert'.37 Of course the baroque poets, both dramatic and satiric, are full of it: Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.38 Climax, which means 'ladder', is the enlargement and elevation of one thought through a graded... | |
 | Samuel Wesley - History - 2001 - 588 pages
...the Performers had no Sight of the Piano Forte. ' Pope. Episde to Dr Arbiithnot (i735l- II. a0i a: 'Damn with faint praise. assent with civil leer. ] And without sneering. teach the rest to sneer. ' a9 Apr. * Not preserved: probably Horsley's reply to SW's 'inqnisitorial line' mentioned in the previnus... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Books and reading - 2001 - 280 pages
...with ease: Shou'd such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the dirone, 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, teach... | |
 | Philip Olleson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 394 pages
...counterbalanced by an Exuberance of Envy', before going on to quote Pope's couplet about critics who 'Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer'.9 When challenged about the review, Horsley not surprisingly denied any involvement with it,... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no 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 civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing... | |
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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, Alike... 
