 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 rigid to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place,...  The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Страница 61по Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 118 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 страници
...for mankind Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy TownshcndJ er youthful lover in an inner apartment with impatience ; when h refin ing, And thought of convincing, while they thought о dining: Though equal to all things, Tor... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1924 - 552 страници
...Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. . . . Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. . . . For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient."... | |
 | William O'Brien - 1924 - 344 страници
...posterity the oftener his speeches are re-perused. A heedless couplet in Goldsmith's Retaliation — Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining — has led a more heedless public to accept with an indolent ignorance the legend that Burke's rising... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - 1925 - 716 страници
...politically a failure, his failure can be best explained in words used of his greater contemporary Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing when they thought of dining .... For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of... | |
 | John James Van Nostrand - 1925 - 398 страници
...politically a failure, his failure can be bent explained in words used of his greater contemporary Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing when they thought of dining .... For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 страници
...mankind : Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend l hirt." 8 "Work! work! work! While the cock is crowing...— work, Till the stars shine through the roof ! I ; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice - for a statesman, too proud for a wit... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 страници
...for mankind. Tho' fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend 2 to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 страници
...meant for mankind. Tho' fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 страници
...his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; ?OT a patriot too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.... | |
 | Hugh Alexander Law - 1926 - 332 страници
...mankind. Though fraught with all learning, still straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, 9 These extracts have been taken, with one exception, from the collection of Burke's writings on Irish... | |
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