 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - Počet stránok 416
...and taste, are what we and our companions regard as having no peculiar relation to either of us. 14. 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 hale for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 5... | |
 | 1864 - Počet stránok 998
...admire the subtlety with which from page to page of the Story of the Guns Sir Emerson can manage to Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Fortunately for Sir William Armstrong, facts and printed evidence render him independent of Sir Emerson's... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - Počet stránok 312
...and taste, are what we and our companions regard as having no peculiar relation to either of us. 10. Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; 5 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - Počet stránok 334
...silent in his nook, Observing little in his reverie, Yet saw this much, which he was glad to see. (1) [" Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, • And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.'' ^ POPE on Addison.] CVH. The ghost at least had done him this much good, In making him as silent as... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Počet stránok 336
...sting without the obvious exaggeration which enables the victim to laugh it off. The memorable lines Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer, refer to Addison 's unwillingness or inability to restrain his "little Senate" from attacking Pope.... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - Počet stránok 802
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - Počet stránok 260
...inspires; Blessed with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear,...eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - Počet stránok 280
...Blest with each Talent and each Art to please, And born to write, converse, and live 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;... | |
 | Samuel Wesley - 2001 - Počet stránok 588
...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 - Počet stránok 220
...purer Fire. Who hom with Talents, hred in Arts tu piease, Was form'd to write, converse, and live, with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear,...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,... | |
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