 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pages
...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 dislikr • Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A ttm'rous foe, and a suspicious friend. Pope, Many... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...corse the Grecians in the seventh book, when they hfiilate to accept Hector's challenge. Pope. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike Just hint a fault, and herilale dislike ; Alike reserved ta blame or to commend, A tim'ious foe, and a suspicious friend.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 998 pages
...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 pages
...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...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, 10 And so obliging,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 706 pages
...regard and respect fe Mr. Madison. This, I confess, is following IDS direction of the poet, who says: " Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; " And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." But let us inquire if the President had any knowledge that Mr. Erskine had no full power: for if I... | |
 | bart Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges - 1834 - 468 pages
...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... 
