 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 474 pages
...live with ease j 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 j Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...live 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,; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...live 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...live 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,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...sting without the obvious exaggeration which enables the victim to laugh it off. The memorable lines Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer, refer to Addison 's unwillingness or inability to restrain his "little Senate" from attacking Pope.... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 pages
...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... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - 1990 - 612 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...live 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 - 1160 pages
...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.... | |
 | Samuel Wesley - 2001 - 588 pages
...the Performers had no Sight of the Piano Forte. ' Pope. Episde to Dr Arbiithnot (i735l- II. a0i a: 'Damn with faint praise. assent with civil leer. ] And without sneering. teach the rest to sneer. ' a9 Apr. * Not preserved: probably Horsley's reply to SW's 'inqnisitorial line' mentioned in the previnus... | |
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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; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering,... 
