 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...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 ; Alike resolv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous for, and a suspicious friend; Di-eading e'en fools, by... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...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 ; Alike resolv'd to hlame, or to commend, . A timorous foe, () and — a suspicious friend : Dreading e'en... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing hen tempests swrep Towns to one 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...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 ; 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
...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; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools; by flatterers besieged,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...Damn with faint praise, assent the 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 ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, 205 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. towards him,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 716 pages
...wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike resolv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged : Who would not smile, if such a man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...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 ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. much better than he had... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...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 ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; NOTES. much better than he had used... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...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 ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. much better than he had... | |
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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... 
