 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 718 ページ
...View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise : Blame with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without...rest to sneer : Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; .Tost hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike resolv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 ページ
...curse the Grecians in the seventh book, when they hesitate to accept Hector's challenge. Pope. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend. Pope, Many clergymen write... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 808 ページ
...agriculture ought to be some way hinted at throughout the whole poem. Id. On tltc Georgicks, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope, In waking whispers, and repeated dreams. To hint pure thought, and warn the favoured soul. Thomson.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 ページ
...brother near the throne,; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused eth, and dined reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 ページ
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused d feed on one vain patron, and enjoy The extensive blessing strike, lust hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous... | |
 | 1864 - 1000 ページ
...admire the subtlety with which from page to page of the Story of the Guns Sir Emerson can manage to Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Fortunately for Sir William Armstrong, facts and printed evidence render him independent of Sir Emerson's... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 420 ページ
...throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, 10 And so obliging, that he ne'er oblfg'd ; Like Cato, give his... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 ページ
...silent in his nook, Observing little in his reverie, Yet saw this much, which he was glad to see. (1) [" Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, • And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.'' ^ POPE on Addison.] CVH. The ghost at least had done him this much good, In making him as silent as... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 ページ
...throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Willing to wound, and yet affraid to strike, Alike reserv'd... | |
 | bart Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges - 1834 - 468 ページ
...never heard it : but I had to encounter cold, freezing, palsying looks ; and every one knew how to Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ! These assertions will be deemed very querulous; but if they are true, the epithet is not applicable... | |
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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... 
