 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 страница
...describe me, who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. 4177 Retaliatlon (of Edmund Burke) Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. 4178 Retaliatlon (of Garrick) On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 страница
...describe me, who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. 1691 Retaliation (of Edmund Burke) Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a 1692 Retaliation (of Garrick) On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when... | |
 | Timothy Steele - 1999 - 400 страница
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 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 страница
...blocks with a). Oliver Goldsmith said of Edward Burke, the statesman. Too deep for his hearers, he went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining : Tho' equal to all things, to all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 2005 - 381 страница
...Burke ranks above Webster. But no one would ever have said of Webster as Goldsmith did of Burke : — " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of coBviuciug while they thought of dining." Webster never sinned by over refinement or over ingenuity,... | |
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Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Tho' 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... 
