 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 strani
...display of subtlety, united with brilliance, might his contending with Berkeley have afforded us ! How must we, when we reflect on the loss of such an...' And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ? " Dr. Johnson seems to have been imperfectly acquainted with Berkeley's doctrine," says the annotator... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 strani
...genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshcnd to lend him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 strani
...Here lies our good Edmund, t whose genius was 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 To persuade Tommy Townshendi to lend him... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 strani
...display of subtilty, united with brilliance, might his contending with Berkeley have afforded us ! How must we, when we reflect on the loss of such an...that he should be characterised as the man, " Who bom for the universe norrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind 1 ?" My revered... | |
 | 1831 - 790 strani
...191. Here lies our good 'Edmund, whose geniug was 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 hia such, To persuade tTommy Townshend to lend him... | |
 | 1831 - 448 strani
...say when, or where, or by what boundary, the operation of this influence if to be circumscribed. ' narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.' No ; what was meant for mankind, he has given to mankind. We have adverted to his exertions in behalf... | |
 | 1831 - 426 strani
...mingle himself with the political wranglings of the day, that ' Born for the universe, he narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.' To the works, to which we have already alluded, we shall have occasion to recur in the course of this... | |
 | 1832 - 616 strani
...genius was euch, We fcarrely can praise it or Mame it too much ¡ Who, bom for the universe, narrow M his mind. And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ; Tho'fraught with all teaming, kept straining hi» throat, To persuade Tommy Townsheod to lend him... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 534 strani
...verses and inequalities under an assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. 1 Churchill— " Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind," »— Churchill was one of the first to seek in the " Mac1 ["I learned versification wholly from the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 strani
...verses and inequalities under an assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden.' Churchifi“Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind,” t—. Churchill was one of the first to seek in the “Mac‘[“I learned versificationwhollyfrom... | |
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How must we, when we reflect on the loss of such an intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, 'Who born for the universe narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind 
