| Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 oldal
...himself to rise. Damn with faint praise, |[ assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Willing to wound, || and — yet afraid...hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike ; Alike resolv'd to hlame, or to commend, . A timorous foe, () and — a suspicious friend : Dreading e'en... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 oldal
...himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,...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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 oldal
...himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; • Willing to wound, and yet afraid to...hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, 205 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; NOTES. towards him, he had sent him the enclosed; which... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 oldal
...himself to rise ; 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; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools; by... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 oldal
...himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach the rest as'd too little or too much. At every trifle scorn...offence, That always shows great pride, or little sense; timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 oldal
...himself to rise ; 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 ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools ; by... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 oldal
...to rise ; 200 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 ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. much better... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 oldal
...to rise ; 200 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 ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; NOTES. much better... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 oldal
...himself to rise; 200 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 ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; NOTES. much better than... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 oldal
...himself to rise ; 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 ; * Spence's Anec. p. 149. Singer's ed. Alike reserved to blame, > or to commend, A timorous foe, and... | |
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