 | Samuel Rogers - Authors - 1859 - 268 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 tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n Fools, by Flatterers... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1860 - 458 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...Just hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, || by flatterers besieged, And so obliging || that... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 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 e'en fools, by... | |
 | Benjamin Lambert - Humor in literature - 1861 - 62 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...; 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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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 e'en fools, by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools ; by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd ; Like Cato, give his little... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 pages
...and live with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother»near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous...reserv'd to blame or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicions friend ; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 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 as to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by flatterers... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate four 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 timorons foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by... | |
 | Henry Riddell Montgomery - Authors, English - 1865 - 476 pages
...rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yct with jealous eyes, And hate four arta 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... | |
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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... 
