 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 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, And so obliging,... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 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 ev'n fools, by... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 430 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; And sit attentive to his... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 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 ev'n fools, by flatterers... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, e two mossy pillars, That to the arched roof gave...; which when Samson Felt in his arms, with head a reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
 | 1852 - 390 pages
...these refined equivoques and dissembling sarcasms which, to compass their ends, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. f « " Latter Day Pamphlet»." f p°Pe (Prologue to the Satires). Its lines are deeply indented and... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1881 - 972 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 refcrr'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools ; by... | |
 | Great Britain - 1881 - 970 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 referr'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools ; by... | |
 | 1881 - 972 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 referr'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools ; by... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1900 - 738 pages
...caus'd himself to rise; Damn wilh faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach thé rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blâme, or to commend, A tira' rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools,... | |
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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... 
