...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, no brother near the throne,...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach...

...jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, 205 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; NOTES. towards him,...

...jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to...strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, 205 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend ; towards him, he had...

...not deny him to the world ; and, as a proof of this disposition Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,...scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; 200 Damn with faint praise, assent the civil leer, And without sneering, teach...

...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, no brother near the throne...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; * Spence's Anec. p. 149. Singer's ed. Alike reserved to blame, > or to commend, A timorous foe, and...

...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, no brother near the throne...to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; * Spence's Anec. p. 149. Singer's ed. Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and...

...brother near the throne, View whim with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with...wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, aud hesitate dislike ; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend...

...art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule breasts seraphic glow v Thou, caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach...

...said Pope, much amused ; " quite epigrammatic." — " Not so bad!" said Swift; " fie upon you !" ' View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And...caused himself to rise ;' ' Damn with faint praise !' • "Fie — fie — fie!" Well, silence, gentlemen, friends and neighbours ; let us hear what he...

...used Swifi much better than he used Pope." Addison's conduct to Swift was generous and noble: they View him with scornful, yet with jealous 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 ;...