| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 страница
...and still the wonder grew That one small head should earry all he knew. Guldmitith's Detertai 500 391 Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of eonvineing, while they thought of dining. Goldsmith's Retaliation. So quiek the words too, when he... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1855 - 312 страница
...at an earlier stage of Burke's career, Goldsmith had independently said, that this great orator - e went on refining, And thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining.' I blame neither party. It ought not to be expected of any popular body that it should be patient of... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1855 - 318 страница
...at an earlier stage of Burke's career, Goldsmith had independently said, that this great orator - ' went on refining, And thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining.' I blame neither party. It ought not to be expected of any popular body that it should be patient of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 страница
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy TownshendJ to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining And thought of convincing while they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman,... | |
| Magdalen Stafford (fict.name.) - 1857 - 292 страница
...Grey, before we left the wood walk, for no other purpose than to drown the recollection. CHAPTER VI. " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining." GOLDSMITH. |NE bright morning Mrs. Walwyn's carriage stopped at the Kectory to take my mother and myself... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 страница
...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 of dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 страница
...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 of dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit : Too nice for a statesman... | |
| Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 страница
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend1 to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman,... | |
| 1859 - 914 страница
...apparel, without questioning whether it were becoming to wear them. Had he taken for his model Edmund Burke — Who, too deep for his hearers, still went...thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining — he would never have made this early impression on the House. It was not merely because he had prodigious... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 страница
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsheno:9 to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining • Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman,... | |
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