 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...  The Monthly Magazine - Pàgina 1191813Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1847 - 526 pàgines
...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. POPE. 13. Before her face her handkerchief she spread, To hide the flood of tears she did not shed. 14. 'T... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pàgines
...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, or to commend, 205 A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pàgines
...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 disk'ke. POPE. 18. Before her face her handkerchief she spread, To hide the flood of tears she did... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pàgines
...by such consummate craft that, though he himself did not sneer, he taught others to sneer. " Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike." That is, in his heart he is willing to hurt, but so cautious that he is afraid to strike lest he bring... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pàgines
...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. And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged. Whilst wits and templars every sentence raise And wonder with... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 300 pàgines
...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." Often are the most painful wrongs inflicted through the medium of covert inuendoes and malignant insinuations.... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 pàgines
...with faint praise, I 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 or to commend, A tim'rous foe, || by flatterers besieged, And so obliging... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pàgines
...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, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend ; Dreading even fools,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pàgines
...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 commend, A timorous foe, or a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools,... | |
 | William Taylor - 1850 - 320 pàgines
...concealed from others. 182 The hinter shuns responsibility, the suggester claims gratitude. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault,...hesitate dislike. Pope. We must suggest to the people in what hatred He still hath held them. Shakspeare. To intimate is to give separate secret intelligence.... | |
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