 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...lies our good Edmund, whose genius was sueh, We seareely ean praise it or blame it too mueh ; Who, bom , if w Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him... | |
 | James Oswald - 1825 - 518 pagina’s
...the reproach, so frequently cast on those who have taken a prominent share in public affairs, that he narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. From this correspondence it will also be seen, that while Mr Oswald was engaged in the most laborious... | |
 | James Oswald - 1825 - 538 pagina’s
...reproach, so frequently cast on those who have taken a prominent share in public affairs, that • he narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. From this correspondence it will also be seen, that while Mr Oswald was engaged in the most laborious... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 482 pagina’s
...possibly read the manuscript after he has once written it, or overlook the press. If there were a writer, who, "born for the universe" — " • Narrow'd his mind, And to party gave np what- was meant for mankind — '* • who, from the height of his genius looking abroad into nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pagina’s
...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, " Who born for the universe narrowed 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, nay... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pagina’s
...of Pope. and inequalities under an 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pagina’s
...verses and inequalities under an 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,"... | |
 | 1827 - 576 pagina’s
...genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to give him... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pagina’s
...we, when we reflect on the loss of such an intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, ' Who born for the universe narrow'd his...' And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ? ' " Dr. Johnson seems to have been imperfectly acquainted with Berkeley's doctrine," says the annotator... | |
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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. 
