 | George Campbell - 1845 - 444 sivua
...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, II assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach...hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, I! by flatterers besieged, And so obliging || that... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 sivua
...afraid to go into the dark, when a man is not, because he knows there is no danger. Selden's Table Talk. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer ; And...rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, u st hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope. Pro. to Satires. Affrays (from affraier, to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 sivua
...write, converse, 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,...strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike ; Alike rcserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 sivua
...alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous oyee, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn...praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, others teach to sneer; Witting to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 sivua
...converse, and live with ease ; Should such a mm, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no hrother 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 civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sivua
...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...stars! It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 sivua
...of multiple antitheses: Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teaeh the rest to sneer. Willing to wound, and yet afraid...to strike. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike . . . ('Epistle to Arbuthnot', 201-4) It was when Pope combined Ovidian verse technique with Horatian... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 380 sivua
...come out straight; the CVCP is to be talked to about an 'apparent' lack of accountability. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; The half-hidden message of the paragraph is a double one: that accounting is indeed not being exercised... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - 1998 - 292 sivua
...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...dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend . . . (11. 201-6) The crucial, most damning detail in the portrait... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 sivua
...write, converse, 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 eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
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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 Turk,... 
