 | 1843 - 714 pàgines
...minority. The liberator of the Hottentots, like the immortal Burke, " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining ;" frequently talks an assembly of shallow MI: ii into marked and ill-mannered impatience, while discoursing... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pàgines
...well-earned reward. 'If it was objected to him in his own day that, " too deep for his hearers," he "still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they 'thought of dining," that searching philosophy which pervades his speeches and writings, and is there wedded in such happy... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pàgines
...straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote l 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 untii, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pàgines
...to carry the lessons of philosophy into an assembly of practical debaters. Simple old man ! — "He went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining." And yet who of all that generation has so powerfully influenced the political genius of England during... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still dding-day, Death called aside the jocund groom With him Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit :... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pàgines
...of convincing, while they thought of The scourge of impostors, the terror of quacks; dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot, too cool; fora drudge, disobedient; Ami too Kind of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pàgines
...straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsend9 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 :... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1846 - 514 pàgines
...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... | |
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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,... 
