 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 sidor
...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 sidor
...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...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuadeTommyTownshendi to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 sidor
...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. Tho* fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend * tolendhimavote;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 sidor
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 sidor
...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 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 sidor
...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 - 562 sidor
...stood in the couplet where Mr. Townshend is now introduced : " Though fraught with all learning kept straining his throat, " To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote." It may be worth remarking, among the minutiae of my collection, that Johnson was once drawn to serve... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 sidor
...such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, bom for the universe, narrow'd his mindi And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though...learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsendf to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 sidor
...whofe genius was fuch, We fcarcely can praife it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the univerfe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Tho' fraught with all learning, yet ftraining his throat, To perfuade Tommy Townfhendtf to lend him... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 sidor
...and support myself by the authority of Goldsmith, who ventured early to lament that • he narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. But the awful history of our own times has persuaded me lo forbear; for of Burke, at least, posterity... | |
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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. 
