 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 450 pàgines
...gentleman's repeating Goldsmith's celebrated lines on Burke: " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in plaee, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pàgines
...straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 pàgines
...his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend J to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining : Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pàgines
...could of course be no communion between natures so different. " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, yet for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit."... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 pàgines
...could of course be no communion between natures so different. " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, yet for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit."... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pàgines
...Reynolds. * An eminent attorney. 5 Vide page g3. 6 Vide page g3. Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining : Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit;... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 404 pàgines
...narrow'd 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 of dining : Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit;... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pàgines
...straining his throat. To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining. And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pàgines
...his throat, [vote : To persuade 15 Tommy Townshend to lend him a Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
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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, sir,... 
