 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 sidor
...the loss of such an intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, " Who bom for the universe narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind1 ?" My revered friend walked down with me to the beach, where we embraced and parted with tenderness,... | |
 | 1831 - 426 sidor
...mingle himself with the political wranglings of the day, that ' Born for the universe, he narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.' To the works, to which we have already alluded, we shall have occasion to recur in the course of this... | |
 | 1881 - 274 sidor
...glorious powers to the scramblings and squabblings of the day, and, " Born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. " And now, gentlemen, you will allow me to discuss, in conclusion, this institution, which is dedicated... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 sidor
...Burke, of whom Goldsmith said, with such truth, long ago 'that born for the universe, "he narrowed his mind" And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.' " The comment has led Leslie Chard II, who considers the question of Wordsworth's conversion to Burke... | |
 | Robert Tarbell Oliver - 1986 - 332 sidor
...to all of them the disparagement Goldsmith applied to Burke— Who, born for the universe narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. 19 Mistakes in tactics there may have been, even serious mistakes. And the prosecutors may, indeed,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1994 - 518 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" (The Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith, 5 vols., ed. Arthur Friedman [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 sidor
...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 18 or is there something besides to be said? There is much that is obviously plausible in Goldsmith's... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 sidor
...Burke: 'Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And...meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote; 1 Referring to Dr John Douglas... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 sidor
...Goldsmith's description of him as the man, of all his generation, "Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, / And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." But party, as Burke understood it, was a broader and more generous principle of association than such... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 sidor
...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...too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things... | |
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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. 
