 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pagine
...brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...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... | |
 | 1817 - 398 pagine
...claims; they 'are as £ull of envy as they are devoid of talent; they, in the words of Pope ; — . Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And...sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. RULES TO DISCOVER MARRIED COUPLES IN... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pagine
...hruther near the throne, View him with scoroful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to hlame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, hy... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pagine
...View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise : Blame with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without...; 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pagine
...alone, Bear, b'ke the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, ng forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading cv'n fools, by flatterers bcsieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 pagine
...alone, Bear, like a Turk, no hrother near his throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise. Damn...hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike ; Alike resolv'd to hlame, or to commend, . A timorous foe, () and — a suspicious friend : Dreading e'en... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1820 - 884 pagine
...enough. It was not exactly what it had been described by an honourable gentleman opposite. They did not Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Theirs was certainly no praise at all ; and as certainly, nothing like civility ; but, as to sneers,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pagine
...alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 574 pagine
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 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pagine
...jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to...commend, 205 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; NOTES. towards him, he had sent him the enclosed; which was the CHARACTER, first published separately,... | |
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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... 
