| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 стор.
...attorney. Though 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, [dining; And thought of convincing, while they thought of Though equal to all things, for all things... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 стор.
...To persuade Tommy Townshend" to lend him a Who, too deep for his hearers, still wt-nt on re fin ng, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...for a wit ; For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge disnti e-.lient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 стор.
...for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend limb, and short of sight, Far from a lynx, and not a giant quite : I'll pnrsue the expedient. In short, 'twas hie fate, unemploy'd, orin place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and... | |
| 1824 - 720 стор.
...for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote — Who, too deep for his hearers,...still went on refining, And thought of convincing, when they thought of dining. Though equal to all things — for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1824 - 402 стор.
...conversation was renewed by the English gentleman's repeating Goldsmith's celebrated lines on Burke — " Who too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining, In short 'twas his fate unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold,... | |
| 1842 - 982 стор.
...; that engages the reflecting minority. The liberator of the Hottentots, like the immortal Burke, ' Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining,' frequently talks an assembly of shallow men into marked and ill-maunered impatience, while discoursing... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 стор.
...for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend n for Thomas Tegg eonvineing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too niee... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 370 стор.
...conversation was renewed by the English gentleman's repeating Goldsmith's celebrated lines on Burke — " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining ; In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 стор.
...as one 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 conversation he ever sought for... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 стор.
...as one 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. ff Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought... | |
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