 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...  Lectures on the British Poets - Page 198by Henry Reed - 1857 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...one whose fires' True genins kindles, and fair fame inspires, Bless'd with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with...scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that cans'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...talent and eneli art to-pleasc, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a raan, o G - caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...one whoge fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with f ach talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live 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, Ami, without sneering,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...talent and each nrt to please, And born to write, converse, anil live with ease : Should such a DIM, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother...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, without sneering,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...Poets are sultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne." But this is not the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...prologues, Poets are sultans, if they had their -will ; For every author would his brother kill. And Pope, Should such a man too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. But this is not the best of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanshaw, and his elegy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no rival near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 324 pages
...fires Apollo kindled, and fair Fame inspires : Blest with each talent a1id each art to please, And horn to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such...man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no hrother near the throne jView him with scornful, yet with fearful eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pages
...one whose firei True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires ; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faiut praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
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