 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 lehte
...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...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Antony Easthope - 1999 - 292 lehte
...afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend, Dreading...Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While Wits... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 lehte
...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...hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend, Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 lehte
...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...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools, by... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 2004 - 304 lehte
...vulnerable through open attack. He thus developed a proto-Gouldian rhetorical technique that enabled him to "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, /...strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike" (1969, 11. 201-204). In an article that offers a thorough and precise analysis of Gould's rhetorical... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 2004 - 308 lehte
...vulnerable through open attack. He thus developed a proto-Gouldian rhetorical technique that enabled him to "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, /...rest to sneer; / Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / lust hint a fault, and hesitate dislike" ( 1969, 1L 201-204). 1n an article that offers a... | |
 | 張錯 - 2005 - 360 lehte
...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...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A tim，rous foe and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools, by... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 lehte
...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...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... | |
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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... 
