| Hugo Reid - 1840 - 78 σελίδες
...REGARDING THH INTENTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE, IN M. ARAGO'S HISTORICAL ELOGE OF JAMES WATT. BY HUGO REID. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Fiat justitia. GLASGOW: ROBERT STUART & CO., INGRAM STREET ; W. TAIT, EDINBURGH ;— SIMPKIN, MARSHALL,... | |
| 1840 - 372 σελίδες
...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 ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
| George Campbell - 1841 - 416 σελίδες
...these lines of Pope : 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...|| and yet — afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, jj and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A lim'rous foe, || by flatterers... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 σελίδες
...ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Sear, like the Turk, no brother near the ihrone, lo sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid lo strike. Just hint a fault, and hesilate dislike ; Alike... | |
| Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - 1990 - 612 σελίδες
...the falsehood served her hateful ends, Congenial audience found in hollow friends; 40 Who to the tale 'assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer'; His friendship o'er me spread that guardian shield, Which his severest virtue best could wield; Repelled... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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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