 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 reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 236by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...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 reserv'd to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools ; by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...fault, and hesitate dislike. Line 201 lly flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. Line 207. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? Line... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pages
...suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; 210 While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise — Who... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Line 201. Epi«k to Dr. Arbuthnot continued.] By flatterers besieg"d, And so obliging that he ne'er...senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. Line 207. AVho but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? Line... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reservM to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers besiegM, And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd"; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; ' Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? Mr. Thackeray,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...fault, and hesitate dislike. Liiumi. By flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. LOle™1. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? Line... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 476 pages
...Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged ; And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1870 - 360 pages
...suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause j While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise ; Who but... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1871 - 910 pages
...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 reserv'd...suspicious friend : Dreading ev'n fools ; by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit... | |
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