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In what Alexander Pope poem is reference made to “damning with faint praise”?

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In the “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” (1735), reference is made to “damning with faint praise”.

In the satiric poem, Alexander Pope wrote: “Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,/And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.”

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