 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise. Damn with faint praise, |[ assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Willing...hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike ; Alike resolv'd to hlame, or to commend, . A timorous foe, () and — a suspicious friend : Dreading e'en... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 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 timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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...hesitate 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the 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, 205 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. towards him,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the 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, 205 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; towards him, he had... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing...commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. much better than he had used Pope, on that account, though he had been more roughly treated... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing...commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; NOTES. much better than he had used Pope, on that account, though he had been more roughly treated... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing...commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. much better than he had used Pope, on that account, though he had been more roughly treated... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 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...hesitate 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. n the fault of such, Who still are pleas'd too little...to take offence, That always shows great pride, or reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'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... 
