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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... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 112
by Alexander Pope - 1854
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General Report on Public Instruction, in the Lower Provinces of the Bengal ...

Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...between him and Pope ? Explain the following lines : " 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. ******* And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged. ******* Whilst wits and templars every sentence raise...
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Scholarship examinations of 1846/47 (-1853/54).

Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...between him and Pope ? Explain the following lines : " 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. And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged. Whilst wits and templars every sentence raise And wonder with...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the ...

Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 even fools, by flatterers besieged, Aud so obliging,...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - English language - 1849 - 472 pages
...eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, I assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing...hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, || by flatterers besieged, And so obliging || that he ne'er obliged."^ With what a...
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Outlines of English literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 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...fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, and to commend, A timorous foe, or a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged,...
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The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil I6er, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fan1!, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, 10 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious...
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Outlines of English Literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneerj Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, and to commend, A timorous foe, or a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged,...
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Two lectures, on the poetry of Pope, and on his own travels in ..., Volume 1

George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 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 tim'rous foe, and a supicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, Ъу...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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 tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by...
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Leisure Hours in a Country Parsonage; Or Strictures on Men, Manners, and Books

John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 pages
...whisper his opinion— but would not for the world have his name mentioned in the affair— " Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike." Thus the poison is set to work, and what was at first the veriest trifle, little or nothing, swells...
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