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... Deutschland - Página 2411796Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...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,...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, A timorous... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 páginas
...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...sneer, Willing to wound. || and — yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, I) and — hesitate dislike ; Alike resolved to blame, or to commend, A... | |
| George Campbell - 1840 - 450 páginas
...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,...sneer; Willing to wound, || and yet — afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A... | |
| Hugo Reid - 1840 - 116 páginas
...INTENTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE, IN M. ARAGO'S HISTORICAL ELOGE OF JAMES WATT. BY HUGO EEID. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Fiat justitia. GLASGOW: ROBERT STUART & CO., INGRAM STREET ; W. TAIT, EDINBURGH ;— SIMPKIN, MARSHALL,... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint ot my heart HAGS. 1. I HAVE been, all day, looking...feeding upon a quarter ; And, soon as she tum'd h strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 páginas
...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 without sneering,...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... | |
| George Campbell - 1845 - 444 páginas
...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, II assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach...sneer ; Willing to wound, || and yet — afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, || and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 páginas
...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...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, A timorous... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 páginas
...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...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, A timorous... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 páginas
...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,...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, A timorous... | |
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