| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...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,...yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend 1 to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing,... | |
| John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...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 ?" Talking of the origin of language, Johnson said, " It must have come by inspiration. A thousand,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...can praise it, or blame it, too much; \Vho, born tor the universe, narrow'd his mind, Arrl to puny gave up what was meant for mankind ; Though fraught...learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tom,my Townsendf to jend him a vote : -,. Wiio, too deep for his hearers, stilj weflt on refia 5°K' - - And... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 488 pages
...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 ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ; Though fraught with all learning,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...can't be denied 'em, That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good^f 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,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...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; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; * David Garrick, Esq. f Counsellor... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1821 - 448 pages
...of Burke, and support myself by the authority of Goldsmith, who ventured early to lament that • be narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. But the awful history of eur own times has persuaded me to forbear; for of Burke, at least, posterity... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...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." My revered friend walked down with me to the beach, where we embraced and parted with tenderness, and... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 380 pages
...stood in the couplet where Mr. Townshend is now introduced : " Though fraught with all learning kept straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote." It may be worth remarking, among the minutice of my collection, that Johnson was once drawn to serve... | |
| John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. 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 " Mac-Flecknoe,"the "Absalom," and the " Hind and Panther,"... | |
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