 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 474 str.
...throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous, eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise j Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer j Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 840 str.
...same time, professes the utmost regard and respect for Mr. Madison. This, I confess, is following the direction of the poet, who says : " Damn with faint...full power; for if I show, beyond all doubt, that the President did not know it, all this insidious fabric, which is designed to produce so many delusions,... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 578 str.
...throne. View him with jealous yet with scornful eyes, Hate him for arts that caus'd himself to rise, Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. Alike reserv'd to blame or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend, Fearing ev'n fools by... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 str.
...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, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike j First hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 str.
...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, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 778 str.
...same time, professes the utmost regard and respect for Mr. Madison. This, I confess, is following the direction of the poet, who says : " Damn with faint...civil leer ; And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.4 But let ns inquire if the President had any knowledge that Mr. Erskine had no fall power ;... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 str.
...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 str.
...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 It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 str.
...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 the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - 1998 - 292 str.
...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 without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd... | |
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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... 
