| James Kinsley, Helen Kinsley - 1995 - 428 páginas
...belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill — 1 See supra, pp. 257-9. * Supra, pp. 310-12. Who, bom for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind, — 1 Churchill was one of the first to seek in the Mac-Flecknoe, the Absalom, and the Hind and the... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 páginas
...on the celebrated orator, Mr. 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 to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 páginas
...was affection as well as regret in 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... | |
| Joseph Warton - 2004 - 508 páginas
...through the excesses of his own), through an echo of Goldsmith's well-known lines on Burke: 'Who, born to the universe, narrowed his mind,/ And to party gave up what was meant for mankind'.61 This idea of Stockdale as an excessive and eccentric writer seems widely xli INTRODUCTION... | |
| W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 páginas
...Yet some have declared, and it can't be denied 'em, That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,...learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of... | |
| Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto - 2005 - 294 páginas
...emptied the House of all audience. You remember what Goldsmith playfully suggested for Burke's epitaph; "Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such....scarcely can praise it. or blame it. too much; Who. too deep for his hearers, still went on refining. And thought of convincing while they thought of dining;... | |
| Peter Viereck - 200 páginas
...unnecessary "compromise of greatness with meanness" and quoted Oliver Goldsmith's verdict on Burke: "Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind/ And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." Never having been so radical when young, Burke was never so reactionary when old as Coleridge and Wordsworth;... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 461 páginas
...the narrowing, hardemng tendency of his occupation. Said Goldsmith,— - Burke, born for the umverse, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind " Constant engagement in traffic and barter has no elevating influence," says Lyndall. " The endeavor... | |
| Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 páginas
...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... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 2006 - 553 páginas
...narrowing, hardening tendency of his occupation. Said Goldsmith, — " Burke, bom for the tioirerse, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." " Constant engagement in traffic and baiter has no elevating influence," says Lyndall. " The endeavor... | |
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