 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, And thought of convincing, while they thought of -dining. Though equal to all things,...  The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ... - Сторінка 690редактори Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 стор.
...too proud for a wit : For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the riyht c j 1 ( ,Ѕ / 9 @ r (3 y z uR &~j J # %( D"^& {0 ¬ c ʉ tir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. • * * Here lies David Oarrick, describe him... | |
 | Charles James Fox, Earl John Russell Russell - 1853 - 570 стор.
...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...And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient." The Duke of Richmond, a man of talent and spirit, was apt to despond and to abstain from debates in... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 стор.
...Goldsmith for his character of Burke in the ' Retaliation : ' ' Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit;...And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.' * As Dr. Warton has here favoured us with some manuscript lines by Gray, it will be a species of poetical... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 стор.
...Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; >Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; I For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge disobedient...to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest 16 William,... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 стор.
...And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things e, Swift as the sparkle of a glancing star 80 1 576 OLIVER GOLDSMITH And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. 40 In short, 't was his fate,... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 стор.
...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...place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor."2 The sentiments of minor poets are seldom in advance of the opinion of their age; and those... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 стор.
...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....to pursue the expedient. In short 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in play, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor." The lines on Mr. Garrick... | |
 | Dale Cockrell - 1997 - 262 стор.
...may, without the least impropriety, be applied to George: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman - too proud for a...disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedientlll . . . One great cause of George's failures, accidents and indiscretions, is, that in all... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 стор.
...refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining : Tho' equal to all things, to all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a...place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Retaliation (1774.) Read (Sir William), a tailor, who set up for oculist, and was knighted by... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 стор.
...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:...place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that... | |
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