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The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill - Page 132
by John Bell - 1807
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...offspring of wit in thqir birth," Vol. »li. p. 300. View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn...rest to sneer : Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike j Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend ; A tim'rous...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn...hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools; by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...line* View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend; ao» A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers hesieg'd, And so...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn...faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sueering teach the rest to sueer , Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...brother near the throne, Vkw him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cnus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sueer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fanlt, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...Beir, like theTurk, no brother near the throne, View him with scutnfnl, yet with jealous eyes, Aad hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with...hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatt'rers besieg'd, And M> obliging,...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, h reservVl to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicions friend ; Dreadilig cv'n Fools, by...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...brother near the throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cans'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with...Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fanlt, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And,...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike rescrv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools by...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, Ami, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,...
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