 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 страница
...they thought of dining • 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 In short 't was his fate, unemploy'd,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 802 страница
...they thought of dining. 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. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 страница
...was meant for mankind. 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. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 страница
...they thought of dining: 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. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 страница
...they thought of dining ; Though equal to all thing.*, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, his ceremony over, the candles are lighted, the Pope is mou disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 страница
...they thought of dinmg; Though equal to all things, for all things unlit, 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 ; In fine, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 страница
...Quot. pp. 258, 281, 285. 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. GOLDSMITH. — Retaliation, Line 87.... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 страница
...thought of dining : 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 ; In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 страница
...they thought of dining : 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. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd,... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 540 страница
...they thought of dining : 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. of the world, than a sound critic,... | |
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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. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir,... 
