 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - 1853 - 854 sayfa
...considered language, I was reminded of some lines of Pope, descriptive of the character of Addison :— 41 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...sneering, teach the rest to sneer: Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike." He did not say in so many words... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 sayfa
...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...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 as to commend,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 sayfa
...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,...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 sayfa
...throne ; View him with scornful yet with jealous eves, And hate, for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...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 as to commend,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 392 sayfa
...Throne; View him with scornful, yet with fearful Eyes, And hate for Arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint Praise, assent with civil Leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Wishing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a Fault, and hesitate Dislike ; Alike reserved... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 sayfa
...stupid, and damp the pert'.37 Of course the baroque poets, both dramatic and satiric, are full of it: Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.38 Climax, which means 'ladder', is the enlargement and elevation of one thought through a graded... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - 1990 - 612 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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...cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 sayfa
...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...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,... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - 1998 - 292 sayfa
...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...sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,... | |
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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... 
