 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...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 even fools, by... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...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, and to commend, A timorous foe, or a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blessed with each talent and each art to please, And born...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and eaeh art to please, And born to write, converse, and live...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a supicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, Ъу flatterers besieg'd, Like Cato, give... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...piece of dissection without believing that it must have touched upon some points of real soreness. " Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 348 pages
...for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, w1thout sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound,...A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...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 even fools, by... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1852 - 430 pages
...piece of dissection without believing that it must have touched upon some points of real soreness. " Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pages
...True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And horn to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...brother near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eves, 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 as to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend , Dreading even fools, by flatterers... | |
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Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the... 
