 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...please ; And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View...hesitate 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 - 1867 - 520 páginas
...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...hesitate 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 - 1867 - 334 páginas
...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...fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame as to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...Let such teach others, who themselves excel, And censure freely, who have written well. Pope, EC 15. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And,...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope, Pro. to Sa. 201. Aperfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author... | |
 | 1868 - 792 páginas
...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...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Like Cato give his little senate laws. And sit attentive to his own applause ; While wits and templars... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 páginas
...Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Line 197. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Line 201. Epi«k to Dr. Arbuthnot continued.] By flatterers besieg"d, And so obliging that he ne'er... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 1869 - 372 páginas
...throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hute for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And...hesitate 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for Arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, 205 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend, Dreading ev'n fools,... | |
 | 1896 - 1040 páginas
...View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; ])amn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without...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,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease Pope Pope 7 Away at once with love or jealousy! (Ill, iii) 137...shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging,... | |
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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... 
