 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 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 refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 páginas
...na1row'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 ; W)io, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 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 wait on refining, And thought of convincing, trhilr they thought... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 páginas
...Reynolds. § An eminent attorney. || Vide page 111. T Vide page 111. 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 - 1851 - 322 páginas
...account of his eminent literary merit. I am well assured, that Mr. Townshend's attack upon Johnson waa the occasion of his " hitching in a rhyme ;" for that...the couplet where Mr. Townshend is now introduced : — " Thongh fraught with all learning kept straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 páginas
...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 refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 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 refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought... | |
 | George Thomas Keppel Earl of Albemarle, George Thomas Earl of Albemarle - 1852 - 456 páginas
...one, from Goldsmith's lines, wherein he represents Burke — " Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote." " He always," says Wraxall, " spoke with facility — sometimes with energy — and was never embarrassed... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 páginas
...the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ; Tho' fraught wiih all learning, kept 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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1854 - 838 páginas
...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... 
