 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 ... - Seite 11von Alexander Pope - 1807Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph Carroll - 2004 - 308 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 596 Seiten
...thus intimated that the lives of kings are threatened every hour of the day. Damn with Faint Praise. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Pope, Prologue to the Satires, 201 (1734). Damno'nii, the people of Damnonium, that is, Cornwall, Devon,... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Michel Conan - 2005 - 452 Seiten
...i»#-*-* A«"- fc : . /. -:£ •*:*;.. ' ¥*, "i- . 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 Or pleas'd to wound, yet afraid to strike Just hint a fault, & hesitate Dislike' Alike reserv'd to... | |
 | 張錯 - 2005 - 360 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...House Addison did not dictate but rather (as in Steele's letter above) let his minions do that for him. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. (TE, iv, p. 11o) Addison was among Pope's early friends but by the time of Cato both were aware the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 Seiten
...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... | |
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