 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pages
...its friend.-1. CANDOR, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well ; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced...BLACK'S not so black — nor WHITE so very white. " ' Fox, to be sore, was vehement and wrong : But then, PITT'S words, you'll own, were rather strong.... | |
 | 1860 - 1002 pages
...sound. Not his the 'Candor which loves in see-saw strains to tell Of acting wickedly, but meaning well : And finds with keen, discriminating sight Black's not so black, nor white so very white.' In every tiling that bore upon truth or purity, he was a decided man — a man of articulate speech... | |
 | 1862 - 768 pages
...its friends; Candor, which loves in sea-saw strains to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white."* The charity of Athanasius and the Monks was of a different description. But this rhetorical art of... | |
 | 1862 - 766 pages
...its friends ; Candor, which loves in sea-saw strains to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, •...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white."* The charity of Athanasius and the Monks was of a different description. But this rhetorical art of... | |
 | 1862 - 812 pages
...it3 friends ; Candor, which loves in sea-saw strains to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white."* The charity of Athanasius and the Monks was of a different description. But this rhetorical art of... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1866 - 316 pages
...its friends : Candour, which loves in seesaw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well: Too nice to praise by wholesale or to blame, Convinced...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white. Save me, oh save me, from the Candid Friend. 104. hoc . . .juris. Cp. 'hoc via juris habet,' Ov. Nux,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 866 pages
...friends. Candour — which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well ¡ Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced...sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white. " Fox, to be snrc, was vehement and wrong ; But then Pitt's words, you'll own, were rattier strong.... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1867 - 542 pages
...Tories, or Orangeman, and Protestant Ascendancy champions. Then " much may be said on both sides :" " Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame. Convinced that all men's motives are the same, They find with keou, discriminating sight, Black's not >o black, nor white fo eery white. Pox, to be... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 832 pages
...friends. Candour — which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well ; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the came ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so block, nor white so very white. "... | |
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Candour, which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too nice to praise by wholesale or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white... 
