| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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