 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 488 páginas
...Who, born for the universe, narrow.d his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind : Tho' fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat. To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, sfill went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 páginas
...party gave up what was meant for mankind. * Vide page 73. f Ibid. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 páginas
...solely on account of his eminent literary merit. I am well assured, that Mr. Townshend's attack upon Johnson was the occasion of his " hitching in a rhyme...fraught with all learning kept straining his throat, if To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him- a vote." 1 " Anecdotes," p. 43. 1784. It may be worth remakring,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 páginas
...narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant 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, still went on rer fining, And thought of convincing, while they thought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 páginas
...solely on account of his eminent literary merit. I am well assured that Mr. Townshend's attack upon Johnson was the occasion of his" hitching in a rhyme;" for, that in the original copy of Goldsmith'» character of Mr. Burke, in his " Retaliation," another person's name »tood in tli* couplet... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 páginas
...his miiHl, And to party gave up what was meant 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, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 páginas
...solely on account of his eminent literary merit. I am well assured that Mr. Townshend's attack upon Johnson was the occasion of his" hitching in a rhyme;" for, that in the original copy of Goldsmith's chancier of Mr. Burke, in hi» •• Retaliation," another person's паше stood in the couplet... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 páginas
...solely on account of his eminent literary merit. I am well assured, that Mr. Townshend's attack upon Johnson was the occasion of his " hitching in a rhyme;"...him a vote." It may be worth remarking, among the mimttice of my collection, that Johnson was once drawn to serve in the militia, the Trained Bands of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 páginas
...narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade** Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; * David Garrick, Esq. Who, tooideep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 páginas
...narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant 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, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought... | |
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That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. 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. Though... 
