 Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the 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 without sneering,...  The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ... - Page 11by Alexander Pope - 1807Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 314 lehte
...with ease ; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the 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 without sneering, teach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 lehte
...ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering,... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 lehte
...stupid, and damp the pert'.37 Of course the baroque poets, both dramatic and satiric, are full of it: Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.38 Climax, which means 'ladder', is the enlargement and elevation of one thought through a graded... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale, Roger H. Lonsdale - 1990 - 612 lehte
...the falsehood served her hateful ends, Congenial audience found in hollow friends; 40 Who to the tale 'assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer'; His friendship o'er me spread that guardian shield, Which his severest virtue best could wield; Repelled... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 lehte
...with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 lehte
...sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. 'An Epistle to Dr Arbulhnot' ( i 734) 1. 187 7 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Jusl hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. n/ Addison 'An Epislle to Dr Arbulhnot' (1735) I.... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 lehte
...with ease: Shou'd such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the dirone, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for Arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing... | |
 | Samuel Wesley - 2001 - 588 lehte
...the Performers had no Sight of the Piano Forte. ' Pope. Episde to Dr Arbiithnot (i735l- II. a0i a: 'Damn with faint praise. assent with civil leer. ] And without sneering. teach the rest to sneer. ' a9 Apr. * Not preserved: probably Horsley's reply to SW's 'inqnisitorial line' mentioned in the previnus... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 2002 - 220 lehte
...man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no Brother near the Throne: View him with scomful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate, for Arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent wnh civil Leer. And, without sneering, leach the rot to sneer; Or, pleas'd... | |
 | Philip Olleson - 2003 - 394 lehte
...counterbalanced by an Exuberance of Envy', before going on to quote Pope's couplet about critics who 'Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer'.9 When challenged about the review, Horsley not surprisingly denied any involvement with it,... | |
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