 Candour, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends ; Candour, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives...  Horace, with Engl. notes by J.E. Yonge - Page 230by Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Anti-Jacobin The - 1854 - 296 pages
...softens party's headlong rage. CANDOUR, — which spares its foes; nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends. CANDOUR, — which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of aeting foolishly, but meaning well ; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all... | |
 | Europe - Europe - 1856 - 402 pages
...Candour,—which spares its foes ; nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends. Candour,—which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly,...sight, Black's not so black ;—nor white so very white."—CANNING. '- The Sybarite lolls upon the martyr's throne, Lewd ribald jests succeed to solemn... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1858 - 638 pages
...CANDOB, which spares its foes ; nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friend.-1. CANDOR, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly,...BLACK'S not so black — nor WHITE so very white. " ' Fox, to be sore, was vehement and wrong : But then, PITT'S words, you'll own, were rather strong.... | |
 | Religion - 1860 - 1002 pages
...sound. Not his the 'Candor which loves in see-saw strains to tell Of acting wickedly, but meaning well : And finds with keen, discriminating sight Black's not so black, nor white so very white.' In every tiling that bore upon truth or purity, he was a decided man — a man of articulate speech... | |
 | 1862 - 768 pages
...nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends; Candor, which loves in sea-saw strains to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white."* The charity of Athanasius and the Monks was of a different description. But this rhetorical art of... | |
 | 1862 - 812 pages
...nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for it3 friends ; Candor, which loves in sea-saw strains to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white."* The charity of Athanasius and the Monks was of a different description. But this rhetorical art of... | |
 | 1862 - 766 pages
...nor o'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends ; Candor, which loves in sea-saw strains to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white."* The charity of Athanasius and the Monks was of a different description. But this rhetorical art of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1867 - 866 pages
...softens party's headlong rage ; Candour — which spares its foes ; nor e'er descendí With bigot zeal to combat for its friends. Candour — which loves...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white. " Fox, to be snrc, was vehement and wrong ; But then Pitt's words, you'll own, were rattier strong.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1867 - 832 pages
...softens party's headlong rage ; Candonr — which spares its foes ; nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends. Candour — which loves...to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the came ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so block, nor white so very white. "... | |
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