 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Liczba stron: 838
...afraid to go into the dark, when a man is not, because he knows there is no danger. Selden's Table Talk. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer ; And...rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, u st hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope. Pro. to Satires. Affrays (from affraier, to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Liczba stron: 282
...with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne ; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Liczba stron: 386
...with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne ,View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging,... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - 1990 - Liczba stron: 612
...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 - Liczba stron: 1172
...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...stars! It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - Liczba stron: 526
...of multiple antitheses: Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teaeh the rest to sneer. Willing to wound, and yet afraid...to strike. Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike . . . ('Epistle to Arbuthnot', 201-4) It was when Pope combined Ovidian verse technique with Horatian... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - Liczba stron: 380
...come out straight; the CVCP is to be talked to about an 'apparent' lack of accountability. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; The half-hidden message of the paragraph is a double one: that accounting is indeed not being exercised... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - 1998 - Liczba stron: 292
...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...to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend . . . (11. 201-6) The crucial, most damning detail in the portrait of Sir Roger is the last: "but [a]... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - Liczba stron: 260
...with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the 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 without sneering, teach... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - Liczba stron: 1160
...sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. 'An Epistle to Dr Arbulhnot' ( i 734) 1. 187 7 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Jusl hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. n/ Addison 'An Epislle to Dr Arbulhnot' (1735) I.... | |
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Peace to all such ! But were 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 ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the... 
