 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 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; NOTES. much better than he had used Pope, on that account,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 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 ; NOTES. much better than he had used Pope, on that account,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 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 ; NOTES. much better than he had used Pope, on that account,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing too much. At every trifle scorn to take offence, That always shows great pride, or reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 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 ; * Spence's Anec. p. 149. Singer's ed. Alike reserved to blame, > or to commend, A timorous foe, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 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 ; * Spence's Anec. p. 149. Singer's ed. Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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,...dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools ; by flatterers besieged, And so obliging... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...with faint praise, assent with eivil kit, And, without sneering, teaeh the rest to sneer ; Willing ext of kin to those Engender'd in a ehandler's nose ; " reserv'd to blame, or to eommend, A timorous foe, and a suspieious friend ; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
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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... 
