 Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind: Tho' fraught 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,...  English Satires - Stran 150uredili: - 1899 - 298 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 874 strani
...applying to him the lines of Goldsmith, with which we close our observations. A man whose genius is such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrows his mind, And to party gives up what was meant for mankind, ARTICLE 1 !. flints on the National... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 820 strani
...fuch, We fcarcely can praife it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the univerfe, narrow'd his mindt And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet ftraining his throat To perfuade Tommy Townihend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 466 strani
...why need I repeat what has been already said in so happy a manner by Goldsmith, of this great Man : " Who, born for the universe narrow'd his mind, • And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Tho' fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to give him a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 strani
...essential law, the constituent of its being. And of Shakespeare it could least of all be said, " he narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." He represented men as he had seen them. And he could neither repeal nor ignore the old law of human... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1815 - 446 strani
...Burke, and support myself by the authority of Goldsmith, who ventured early to lament that he narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. But the awful history of our own times has persuaded me to forbear ; for of Burke, at least, posterity... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 strani
...Yet some have declar'd, and it can't be denied 'em, That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much;- H Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind :... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 strani
...Yet some have declar'd, and it can't be denied 'em, ['em. That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much \Vlio, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, [mankind : And to party gave up what was meant for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 strani
...Yet some have declar'd, and it can't be denied 'em, That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide "em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,...mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind : ii An eminent attorney. Tho' fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy... | |
 | 1825 - 806 strani
...Walter Scott's character 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• Perhaps the finest scene in all thew novel., il that where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 strani
...Yet some have declared, and it can't be denied 'em, That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,...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,... | |
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