 | 1862 - 768 pągines
...nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends; Candor, which loves in sea-saw strains to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too...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 pągines
...nor o'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends ; Candor, which loves in sea-saw strains to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning well; Too...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 pągines
...Anti-Jacobin : Candour, which spares its foes nor e'er descends With bigot seal to combat for its friends : Candour, which loves in seesaw strain to tell Of acting...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 pągines
...; Candour — which spares its foes ; nor e'er descendķ With bigot zeal to combat for its friends. Candour — which loves in see-saw strain to tell...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. Both must be... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 832 pągines
...; Candonr — which spares its foes ; nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends. Candour — which loves in see-saw strain to tell...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. "... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1867 - 542 pągines
...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 - 804 pągines
...combat for its friends. Candour — which loves in see -saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, bnt meaning well ; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives arc the same ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white.... | |
 | L M. Hotson - 1868 - 72 pągines
...know The dangers of the seas ; Within stone walls alone they braved The battle, not the breeze. 3. "And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white." 27. 5. " Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll, From the world's girdle to the frozen pole."... | |
 | 1871 - 632 pągines
...(Macmillan.) In a time like the present, 90 well described in Canning's well-known couplet, which— " finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so very white," — it is not to be wondered at that endeavours should be made to do justice to one to whom scant justice... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1872 - 628 pągines
...CANDOUR,—which spares its foes ; nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for its friends. CANDOUR,—which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly,...finds, with keen discriminating sight, BLACK'S not so black;—nor WHITE so very white. " Fox, to be sure, was vehement and wrong : " But then, PITT'S words,... | |
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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; -... 
