 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...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 dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools ; by... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 324 pages
...caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teuch the rest to sneer : Willing to wound, and yet afraid...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to hlame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend : Dreading e'en fools hy flatterers... | |
 | William Taylor - English language - 1813 - 356 pages
...concealed from others. 182 • The 1. inter shuns responsibility, the suggester claims gratitude. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope. AVe must suggest to the people in what hatred He still hath held them. Shakspeare; To intimate... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 pages
...Cobbler of Preston.— H. + Verse of Dr. Ev.— H. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend: Dreading e'en fools, by... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...and Cobbler of Preston.—H. + Verse of Dr. Ev,—H. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend: Dreading e'en fools, by... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1814 - 310 pages
...avenged. These are alluded to, when the Satirist sings, Damn with faint praise ; assent with civil leer ; And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing...to strike; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike, &c. * From Lord Egmont's MS. Collections. See the Addpnda to Kippis's Biographia Britanoica. r Accusations... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 494 pages
...Damn with faiut praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Wilting 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 friend ; preading even fools, by... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...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...dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise : Blame with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer : Willing...; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike resolv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous for, and a suspicious friend; Di-eading e'en fools, by... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow,...grave, whole nations to the deep ? " No," 'tis rep reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading cv'n fools, by... | |
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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... 
