 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...  Recollections - Page 34by Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil I6er, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fan1!, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, 10 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...to all such ! but were there one whose firei True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born...rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, lust hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by... | |
 | 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...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a supicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, Ъу... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 pages
...whisper his opinion— but would not for the world have his name mentioned in the affair— " Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike." Thus the poison is set to work, and what was at first the veriest trifle, little or nothing, swells... | |
 | 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...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 348 pages
...for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, w1thout sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound,...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 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...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...brother near the throne. View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
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