 | 1925 - 462 páginas
...or pathos, they usually became wearisome to the House from their minuteness and subtle^ fojjs.. He went on refining And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. We see then, in the philosophical habits of his mind, why he spoke BO often to empty benches, while... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 páginas
...narrowed 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 to...thought of convincing while they thought of dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | 1900 - 868 páginas
...directly; and, roughly speaking, foe -was, except on certain great occasions, a Parliamentary failure — Who, <too deep for his hearers, still went on refining....thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. We have left ourselves no space to deal with the many pertinent names of our own century and our o<wn... | |
 | Rudolf Pechel - 1879 - 524 páginas
...scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; aber er fügt boa) nocí) Ijinju, bofe biefer grofce ©entua too deep for his hearers, still went on refining And...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. 6a ift toofjrfdjeinlidj, ba§ felbft ber ftramme (Sonferbatibe, 3¡oí)níon, bet ba§ ©cepter in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 564 páginas
...was known to his contemporaries by the nickname of ' the Dinner-Bell.' ' Too deep for his hearers, he went on refining ; And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ! ' Fox, so pre-eminent as a debater, appears with small distinction in his authorship. Nay more, even... | |
 | Nicholas K. Robinson, Edmund Burke - 1996 - 233 páginas
...dinner bell", echoing Goldsmith's lines on his fellow Irishman: Who, too deep for his hearers, yet went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. 11 And in The Orawr< journey (Plate 73), Burke is placed in the histrionic company of aa& -« • 72.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 páginas
...describe me, who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. 1691 Retaliation (of Edmund Burke) Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a 1692 Retaliation... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...describe me, who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. 4177 Retaliatlon (of Edmund Burke) Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. 4178... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 páginas
...cut bkcks with a). Oliver Goldsmith said of Edward Burke, the statesman. Too deep for his hearers, he went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining: Tho' equal to all things, to all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool ; for a... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto - 2005 - 294 páginas
..."Here lies our good Edmund. whose genius was such. We scarcely can praise it. or blame it. too much: Who. too deep for his hearers. still went on refining....thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things. for all things unfit. Too nice for a statesman. too proud for a wit: For... | |
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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 right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place,... 
