 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
 | William Mathews - American essays - 1881 - 358 pages
...communion with wretchedness and vice. In spite of Canning's sneer at the nice judge who " — found with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white," the doctrine thus ridiculed is nevertheless true in morals, if not in physics; and not to recognize... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...these good men. Dropped from an Angel's wing, in. WORDSWORTH — Walton's Book of Lives. PERCEPTION. IX. Line 308. I only know we loved in vain — I only feel n. CANNISO — New Morality. To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage, o. CONFUCIUS—... | |
 | 1884 - 562 pages
...drivelling virtue of this moral age. Candour, which spares its foes ; nor e'er descends, With bigot zeal, to combat for its friends. Candour, which loves in...sight, Black's not so black, nor White so very white. — Canning. THE BUSH TELEGRAPH. " Did you ever meet with any of the bushrangers ?" "Yes, after they... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...which 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...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white. " Fox, to be sure, was vehement and wrong ; But then, Pitt's words, you'll own, were rather strong... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 694 pages
...Candor, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends: Candor, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly,...Black's not so black, nor white so very white, Save, oh save me from the candid friend." FOOLISH JESTING. If I said, in idle raillery, that the silly Buflllus... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 pages
...Candor, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends: Candor, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly,...same ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Rlack's not so black, nor white so very white, Save, ob save me from the candid friend." FOOLISH JESTING.... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American prose literature - 1886 - 456 pages
...daily communion with wretchedness and vice. In spite of Cannings's sneer at the nice judge who " fouud with keen, discriminating sight. Black's not so black, nor white so very white." the doctrine thus ridiculed is nevertheless true in morals, if not in physics; and not to recognize... | |
 | George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis - Burlesque - 1890 - 456 pages
...; 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...Black's not so black ; — nor white so very white. 200 " Fox, to be sure, was vehement and wrong : — But then Pitt's words, you'll own, were rather... | |
 | George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis - Burlesque - 1890 - 458 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,...finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black;—nor white so very white. " Fox, to be sure, was vehement and wrong :— But then Pitt's words,... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1890 - 284 pages
...age. Candor, which loves in see-saw strains to tell Of acting foolishly but meaning well, Too wise to praise by wholesale or to blame, Convinced that...the same, And finds with keen, discriminating sight Black 's not so black, nor white so very white. Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold... | |
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