 | Edmund Burke - 1778 - 578 strani
...whole genius was (ucla, We fcarcely can praife it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the Univerfe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up, what was meant for mankind, Tho' fraught with ¿ll learning, yet firaining his throat, To perfuade (m) Tommy Townfend to lend him... | |
 | William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - 1899 - 390 strani
...Here lies our good Edmund, 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 Townshend to lend him... | |
 | 1899 - 600 strani
...HUNTINGTON MASON. BENJAMIN B. MOORE. NARROWNESS AT YALE. "Andnow he ivalktth in a narrow -way." —DANTE. " Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." —GOLDSMITH. *T^O accuse of narrowness the three divisions of a great •*• university, the undergraduates,... | |
 | 1921 - 924 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; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought... | |
 | 1910 - 738 strani
...One may compare Goldsmith's couplet in ‘ Retaliation ‘ :— Who, hOrn for the Universe, narruw'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. M. GAIDOZ calls England “ the country in which classical studies are most honoured at large.” Englishmen... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 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...mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ? " My revered friend walked down with me to the beach, where we embraced and parted with tenderness,... | |
 | 1825 - 806 strani
...Walter Scott's charucter as a Man. " If there were a writer, who, ' bom for the universe'— ' Narrowed his mind. And to party gave up what was meant for mankind—' who, from the height of his genius look• Perhap« the fine« scene in all the«* novels, u that where... | |
 | 1850 - 774 strani
...criticism of Burke, for instance, is an exalted Common Sense— " Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to Party gave up what was meant for Mankind." That is the larger grasp of common Sense rising into high Sense. " And thought of convincing while... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 strani
...Burke, of whom Goldsmith said, with such truth, long ago 'that born for the universe, "he narrowed his mind" And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.' " The comment has led Leslie Chard II, who considers the question of Wordsworth's conversion to Burke... | |
 | Robert Tarbell Oliver - 1986 - 332 strani
...to all of them the disparagement Goldsmith applied to Burke— Who, born for the universe narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. 19 Mistakes in tactics there may have been, even serious mistakes. And the prosecutors may, indeed,... | |
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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 
