 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,...statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cold ; for a drudge disobedient ; A»d too fond of the right to pursue the expedient ; In short, 't... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote l Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things untii, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool ; fora drudge, disobedient... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...mankind. * Burke. Though fraught with all learning, j-ct straining lib throat, To persuade Tommy Towusend to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and u геш)пг, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. Though ei|ual to all things,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...well-earned reward. 'If it was objected to him in his own day that, " too deep for his hearers," he "still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they 'thought of dining," that searching philosophy which pervades his speeches and writings, and is there wedded in such happy... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...to carry the lessons of philosophy into an assembly of practical debaters. Simple old man ! — "He went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining." And yet who of all that generation has so powerfully influenced the political genius of England during... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...for mankind Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshetnl} to lend him a vote: Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refin ing, And thought of convincing, while they thought of The scourge of impostors, the terror of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...for manhind , Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsend9 to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,...And thought of convincing , while they thought of (lining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1846 - 514 pages
...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... | |
 | Civilization - 1846 - 506 pages
...was a great teacher, whom a listless and impatient House of Commons too often thought a bore. He " Still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining." Even this very dagger-scene was in some respects a matter-of-fact affair — elevated into an approach... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...Village. 13. With words of learned length, and thund'ring sound. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Vittage. 14. Too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 15. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in... | |
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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. 
