 | 1800 - 702 pagina’s
...genius was fuch, " We fcarcely can praife it, or blame it too much; " Who, born fur the L'niverfe, narrow'd his mind, " And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. " Though fraught with a!l learning, yet /training his throat, ft To perfuade Tommy Townfhend to lend... | |
 | 1801 - 554 pagina’s
...curfedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whole genius was fuch. We fcarcely can pralle it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Univerfe,...And to party gave up, what was meant for mankind. Tho' fraught with all learning, yet (training his throat, To perfuade (m) Tommy Townfend to lend him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1802 - 130 pagina’s
...was curfedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good (4) Edmund, whofe genius was fuch, We fcarcely can praife it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the univerfe, narrosv'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Tho' fraught with all learning,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1803 - 256 pagina’s
...converfation was renewed by the englifh gentleman's repeating Goldfmith's celebrated lines on Burke— ' Who too deep for his hearers, ftill went on refining, ' And thought of convincing, whilft they thought of dining, • In fhort 'twas his fate unemployed or in place, fir, * To eat mutton... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pagina’s
...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. * Vide page 73. f Ibid. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pagina’s
...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, yet straining his throat To persuadeTommyTownshendi to lend him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pagina’s
...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. Tho* fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend * tolendhimavote;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pagina’s
...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 bv inspiration. A thousand,... | |
 | John Britton - 1807 - 252 pagina’s
...all, and became a cobler at last. Goldsmith records of Burke, that '< Though born for the universe, he narrow'd his mind, And to Party gave up what was meant for mankind." But here, the case was reversed, as Our political fop Cave up to mankind what was meant for the shop.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...an 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... | |
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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. 
