Explain the excerpt: “Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer…” with reference to its context
Contextual Explanation of the Excerpt Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike Source of the Excerpt This famous excerpt is taken from “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” by Alexander Pope, a major figure in 18th-century English poetry. The poem […]