 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 Seiten
...such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ;...learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshendt to lend him a vote ; Who too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 Seiten
...such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, [vote ; To persuade Tommy Townshend15 to lend him a Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 564 Seiten
...was known to his contemporaries by the nickname of ' the Dinner-Bell.' ' Too deep for his hearers, he went on refining ; And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ! ' Fox, so pre-eminent as a debater, appears with small distinction in his authorship. Nay more, even... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 Seiten
...parliamentary auditors, yet the cultivated classes throughout Europe have reason to be thankful, that he went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. 1 Our very sign boards (said an illustrious friend to me) give evidence, that there has been a TITIAN... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...such, We scarely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote; 1 Referring to Dr John Douglas... | |
 | Nicholas K. Robinson, Edmund Burke - 1996 - 233 Seiten
...dinner bell", echoing Goldsmith's lines on his fellow Irishman: Who, too deep for his hearers, yet went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. 11 And in The Orawr< journey (Plate 73), Burke is placed in the histrionic company of aa& -« • 72.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...describe me, who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. 4177 Retaliatlon (of Edmund Burke) Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. 4178 Retaliatlon (of Garrick) On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...describe me, who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. 1691 Retaliation (of Edmund Burke) Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a 1692 Retaliation (of Garrick) On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 Seiten
...blocks with a). Oliver Goldsmith said of Edward Burke, the statesman. Too deep for his hearers, he went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining : Tho' equal to all things, to all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 2005 - 381 Seiten
...Burke ranks above Webster. But no one would ever have said of Webster as Goldsmith did of Burke : — " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of coBviuciug while they thought of dining." Webster never sinned by over refinement or over ingenuity,... | |
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Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient... 
