 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...  Bell's Edition - Page 40by John Bell - 1796Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...ihrone, View him with scornful, yet with jealous 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 lo sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid lo strike. Just hint a fault, and hesilate dislike ; Alike... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1845 - 444 pages
...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, II assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach...hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, I! by flatterers besieged, And so obliging || that... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pages
...afraid to go into the dark, when a man is not, because he knows there is no danger. Selden's Table Talk. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer ; And...rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, u st hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope. Pro. to Satires. Affrays (from affraier, to... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - English literature - 1990 - 612 pages
...the falsehood served her hateful ends, Congenial audience found in hollow friends; 40 Who to the tale 'assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer'; His friendship o'er me spread that guardian shield, Which his severest virtue best could wield; Repelled... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease Pope Pope 7 Away at once with love or jealousy! (Ill, iii) 137...stars! It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...of multiple antitheses: Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teaeh the rest to sneer. Willing to wound, and yet afraid...to strike. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike . . . ('Epistle to Arbuthnot', 201-4) It was when Pope combined Ovidian verse technique with Horatian... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - Social Science - 380 pages
...come out straight; the CVCP is to be talked to about an 'apparent' lack of accountability. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; The half-hidden message of the paragraph is a double one: that accounting is indeed not being exercised... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - History - 1998 - 292 pages
...gloss on Pope's character of Addison ("Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" [1734]) as one who is accustomed to Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend . . . (11. 201-6) The crucial, most damning detail in the portrait... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
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