 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - Страниц: 462
...as one who was kept back in his dazzling, wayward career, by the supererogation of his talents — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought for... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - Страниц: 464
...as one who was kept back in his dazzling, wayward career, by the supererogation of his talents — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. ff Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - Страниц: 458
...as one who was kept back in his dazzling, wayward career, by the supererogation of his talents — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought for... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 496
...of speaking. the popular report of him, on the part of his associates and admirers, was, that " he went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." When arguments against a systematic, laborious, and long continued study of the art of speaking fail,... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 500
...the vehicle, the popular report of him, on the part of his associates and admirers, was, that " he went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." Can any one believe that this would have been said of Burke, in his lifetime by his friends, had he... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - Страниц: 588
...Parliamentary auditors, yet the cultivated classes throughout Europe have reason to be thankful that ' he went on refining, ' And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining.' Our very sign-boards, (said an illustrious friend to me,) give evidence that there has been a Titian... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Страниц: 436
...for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshcnd to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,...thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all thini;* unfit. Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cool :, for a drudge... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - Страниц: 256
...for mankind : Tho' fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend|| to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,...too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In abort, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - Страниц: 544
...too deep for his hearers, still went on refin ing, And thought of convincing, while they thought о = GB $! \. a L 1 V - 9z r (bC ,G w piafe, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, 5 whose heart... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - Страниц: 844
...lor mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet t training his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend tilings unfit-; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot too cool ; lor a drudge... | |
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Though fraught with all 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 convincing, while they thought of -dining. Though equal to all things,... 
