 | Anti-Jacobin - 1890 - 424 pàgines
...be exercised in the present or any future centuries, as may be found most glorious and convenient. CANDOUR, — which loves in see-saw strain to tell Of acting foolishly, but meaning icell ; Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinced that all men's motives are the same... | |
 | Wilfrid Ward - 1893 - 536 pàgines
...pretensions much as Canning did, and held them to be pretexts for the unreal many-sidedness which " notes with keen discriminating sight, black's not so black nor white so very white." A strong man, perhaps they felt, must be to some extent narrow. That gift of judging fairly and impartially... | |
 | 1894 - 916 pàgines
...Candor, which spares its foes, nor e'er descends With bigot zeal to combat for Its friends: Candor, which loves i Save, oh save me from the candid friend." FOOLISH JESTING. If I said, in idle raillery, that the silly... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pàgines
...for utterance, Stole from her sister Sorrow. g. TENNYSON — The Gardener's Daughter. L. 249. SIGHT. And finds with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black; — nor white so very white. A. CANNING — New Morality. And for to se, and eek for to be seye. t. CHAUCER— Canterbury Tales.... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 pàgines
...rage. 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...sight, Black's not so black ; nor white so very white. . . . Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ;... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 pàgines
...rage. 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...sight, Black's not so black ; nor white so very white. . . . Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ;... | |
 | 1895 - 748 pàgines
...circumstances which form a background for the Puritan, we may see the picture in a changed aspect, and " Find with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black ; — nor white so very white." He had right on his side, but not all the right. The greater men of the period, whether Puritan or... | |
 | Walter Johnson, William Wright - 1903 - 218 pàgines
...other changes. Even with the lighter or darker varieties we are reminded of the satirist's lines : 'And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black, nor white so -very white.' From the long flake was fashioned most of the smaller to Js and implements. The ideal flake would probably... | |
 | George Canning - 1904 - 286 pàgines
...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...well : Too nice to praise by wholesale, or to blame, Convinc'd that all men's motives are the same ; And finds, with keen discriminating sight, BLACK'S... | |
 | Agnes Deans Cameron - 1909 - 432 pàgines
...unsuspected quarter the voice of one cavilling in the wilderness, who contradicts your every story and finds with keen discriminating sight, "Black's not so black nor white so very white." Mr. Thompson-Seton makes declaration, "The silver-fox is but a phase or freak of a common-fox, exactly... | |
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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; -... 
