 | 1852 - 390 pages
...compass their ends, 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. f « " Latter Day Pamphlet»." f p°Pe (Prologue to the Satires). Its lines are deeply indented and... | |
 | 1852 - 524 pages
...compass their ends, 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.f * " Latter Day Pamphleti." f p °Pe (Prologue to the Satires). Its lines are deeply indented... | |
 | 1852 - 516 pages
...compass their ends, 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.f Its lines are deeply indented and coarsely grained, and do not fall on pleasant places. In... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...laws, And greatly praised for doing murderous deeds. Pollok. 352 HESITATION. HIDE. HESITATION. WILLING to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault,...commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend. Pope. He would not with a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his own; With hesitation admirably... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 pages
...Damn with faint Praise, assent with civil Leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Wishing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a Fault,...commend, A tim'rous Foe, and a suspicious Friend. Dreading ev'n Fools, by Flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged: Who, if two Wits... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...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,...dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...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 to blame as to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend , Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - 1853 - 860 pages
...after an intimation of that eort has fallen from any one. He furthermore applied to me the lines from Pope:— " Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike." If the acquaintance of a number of years has left upon the mind of that gentleman an impression that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...with' faint praise, assent with civil leer, I And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault,...dislike; . Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, . 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...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,...dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging,... | |
| |
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... 
