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... Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot - Página 46por Alexander Pope - 1885 - 51 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 páginas
...eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, /(+ / + / reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 páginas
...jealnuaeyea, 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...|| and — yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, j| and — hesitate dislike ; Alike resolved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, |( and — a... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 páginas
...eyes, And hate for arts that.caus'd himself to rise; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet affraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,... | |
| George Campbell - 1840 - 450 páginas
...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...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, H and — a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, || by flatterers besieged, And... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 454 páginas
...Sec the Addenda to Kippis's Riographia Britannica. 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, etc. Accusations crowded faster than the pen could write them down. Pope never composed with more warmth.... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 páginas
...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...|| and — yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, I) and — hesitate dislike ; Alike resolved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, || and — a... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, , all day, looking after A raven, feeding upon a quarter...her beak to the south, I match'd this morsel out of A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
| George Campbell - 1841 - 416 páginas
...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...|| and yet — afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, jj and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A lim'rous foe, || by flatterers... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 páginas
...caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, tench ular, and bush Bending with dewy moisture, o'er the heads Of the A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...strike. Just hint a fault, and hesilate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous }s o obliged ; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits... | |
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