Though 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 ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place,... Gems of Literature, Elegant, Rare, and Suggestive ... - Seite 25von Gems - 1866 - 147 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 370 Seiten
...conversation was renewed by the English gentleman's repeating Goldsmith's celebrated lines on Burke — " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining ; In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, eonvineing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too niee... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 Seiten
...as one who was kept back in his dazzling, wayward career, by the supererogation of his talents — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. ff Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 458 Seiten
...as one who was kept back in his dazzling, wayward career, by the supererogation of his talents — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought for... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 Seiten
...as one who was kept back in his dazzling, wayward career, by the supererogation of his talents — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought for... | |
| 1827 - 496 Seiten
...of speaking. the popular report of him, on the part of his associates and admirers, was, that " he went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." When arguments against a systematic, laborious, and long continued study of the art of speaking fail,... | |
| 1827 - 500 Seiten
...the vehicle, the popular report of him, on the part of his associates and admirers, was, that " he went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." Can any one believe that this would have been said of Burke, in his lifetime by his friends, had he... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 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.' Our very sign-boards, (said an illustrious friend to me,) give evidence that there has been a Titian... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 Seiten
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshcnd to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all thini;* unfit. Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cool :, for a drudge... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend|| to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In abort, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.... | |
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