 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 pages
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a supicious... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn...; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a... | |
 | George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle - Slavery - 1851 - 54 pages
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1852 - 498 pages
...Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts thai caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent...sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, and to commend, A timorous foe, or a suspicions... | |
 | 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...Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars! It i hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious... | |
 | 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...sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. 'An Epistle to Dr Arbulhnot' ( i 734) 1. 187 7 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Jusl hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. n/ Addison 'An Epislle to Dr Arbulhnot' (1735) I.... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Fiction - 2001 - 280 pages
...brother near the dirone, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for Arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with...sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious... | |
 | Samuel Wesley - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 588 pages
...the Performers had no Sight of the Piano Forte. ' Pope. Episde to Dr Arbiithnot (i735l- II. a0i a: 'Damn with faint praise. assent with civil leer. ] And without sneering. teach the rest to sneer. ' a9 Apr. * Not preserved: probably Horsley's reply to SW's 'inqnisitorial line' mentioned in the previnus... | |
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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... 
