 | Francis Atterbury - 1869 - 476 pages
...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...; Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A tim'rous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...brother near the throne ? View him with scornful yet with jealons eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...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... | |
 | 1871 - 908 pages
...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...dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend ; A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend : Dreading ev'n fools ; by flatterers besieged, And so obliging,... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.CXII. - 1871 - 506 pages
...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...strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike, Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 pages
...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...strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike, Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicions friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes. And hate for arts that caused eel ; But his strong helm, of mighty cost, Was all with burnished gold embossed ; reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend. ALHXANDRK POPH. flRHYMERS.... | |
 | 1871 - 494 pages
...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...strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike, Alike reserved to blame or to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend ; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - 1998 - 292 pages
...gloss on Pope's character of Addison ("Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" [1734]) as one who is accustomed to Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And...dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend . . . (11. 201-6) The crucial, most damning detail in the portrait... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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... | |
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Peace to all such! But were there One whose fires True Genius kindles and fair Fame inspires; Blest 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, like the Turk,... 
