 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 - English poetry - 1890 - 424 pages
...be exercised in the present or any future centuries, as may be found most glorious and convenient. CANDOUR, — which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning icell ; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English poetry - 1891 - 304 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...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.... | |
 | Wilfrid Ward - Catholic converts - 1893 - 536 pages
...pretensions much as Canning did, and held them to be pretexts for the unreal many-sidedness which " notes with keen discriminating sight, black's not so black nor white so very white." A strong man, perhaps they felt, must be to some extent narrow. That gift of judging fairly and impartially... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...Candor, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for Its friends: Candor, which loves i oh save me from the candid friend." FOOLISH JESTING. If I said, in idle raillery, that the silly Rufillus... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...for utterance, Stole from her sister Sorrow. g. TENNYSON — The Gardener's Daughter. L. 249. SIGHT. And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black; — nor white so very white. A. CANNING — New Morality. And for to se, and eek for to be seye. t. CHAUCER— Canterbury Tales.... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 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. . . . Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ;... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 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. . . . Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ;... | |
 | University extension - 1895 - 748 pages
...circumstances which form a background for the Puritan, we may see the picture in a changed aspect, and " Find with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black ; — nor white so very white." He had right on his side, but not all the right. The greater men of the period, whether Puritan or... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Great Britain - 1903 - 172 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. Both... | |
 | Walter Johnson, William Wright - Flint - 1903 - 218 pages
...other changes. Even with the lighter or darker varieties we are reminded of the satirist's lines : 'And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so -very white.' From the long flake was fashioned most of the smaller to Js and implements. The ideal flake would probably... | |
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