 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 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 reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools, by... | |
 | George Campbell - 1854 - 456 pages
...teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, I| and yet — afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, I! and — hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, |i by flatterers besieged, And so obliging |1 that he ne'er obliged.":}: With what a masterly hand... | |
 | 1896 - 1040 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 and to command, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged,... | |
 | 1881 - 970 pages
...Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, others teach to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike referr'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools ; by... | |
 | 1881 - 972 pages
...-with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, others teach to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike referr'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools ; by... | |
 | 1881 - 972 pages
...Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, others teach to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike refcrr'd to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools ; by... | |
 | 1900 - 738 pages
...wilh faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach thé rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blâme, or to commend, A tira' rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing t name it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause....shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers th timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging,... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
