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 - 1806 - 508 pages
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him as a Tory and Jacobite, who had affiflcd in writing the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him as a Tory and Jacobite, who had afliftcd in writing the... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...each talent and each art to pleafe, 195 And born to write, converfe, and live with eafe : Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View NOTES. Letters) in their clamours againft him at a Tory and Jacobite, who had ailill t\l in writing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...fultans, if they had their will ; " For every author would his brother kill." And Pope, " Should fuch a man, too fond to rule alone, " Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.'* Bvjt this is not thq beft of his little pieces : it is excelled by his poem to Fanfhaw, and his elegy... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 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 caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer^ And without sneering teach... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, 194 Bless'd,with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with...fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother neat the throne, % View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyei. And hate for arts that caus'd himself... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1807 - 446 pages
...Dcnham, Orrery, in one of his prologues, • Poets are sultans, if tht:y had their will ; And Pope, ' Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, ' Bear like the Turk no hrother near the throne.' But this is not the hest of his little pieces: it is excelled hy his poem... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...one whose fires True genius 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 caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sueering teach... | |
| 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... | |
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