 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 222 Seiten
...his point: Pope's portrait of Addison ("Atticus") in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot contains the lines: "Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, / Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne" (lines 197-98); and Johnson's "rivals in the Roman state" perhaps has in mind the tragic impasse in... | |
 | Philip Olleson - 2003 - 360 Seiten
...counterbalanced by an Exuberance of Envy', before going on to quote Pope's couplet about critics who 'Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer'.9 When challenged about the review, Horsley not surprisingly denied any involvement with it,... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2004 - 553 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 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,... | |
 | 張錯 - 2005 - 335 Seiten
...Bless，d 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...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 - 433 Seiten
...Who born with Talents, bred in Arts to please, Was form'd to write, converse & live with ease; Shou'd such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the...Throne, View him with Scornful, yet with jealous eyes :" Pope, mss., marked "Precious" in pencil by someone, Hiirlcy Papers, xii. (nd, np). It became part... | |
 | Nicolas H. Nelson - 2006 - 267 Seiten
...Pope admits, but he also tried to rule the literary world like a tyrant. Addison could, Pope declares, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View...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 - 283 Seiten
...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...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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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 the rest to sneer... 
