| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...genius was fuch, We fcarcely can praife it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the univerfe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Tho' fraught with all learning, yet ftraining his throat, ToperfuadeTommyTownihendtf to lend hima vote;... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1811 - 212 pages
...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: Tho' fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend '* to lend him... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...genius wa* 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 fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, Topersuadef Tommy Townshend tolendhimavote;... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 484 pages
...genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; \Vho, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuadef Tommy Townshendtolendhimavote;... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1815 - 446 pages
...name of Burke, and support myself by the authority of Goldsmith, who ventured early to lament that he narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. But the awful history of our own times has persuaded me to forbear ; for of Burke, at least, posterity... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pages
...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 fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend 1 to lend him... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...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: » An eminent attorney. Tho' fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy... | |
| John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, " Who born for the universe narrow'd his mind, " And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ?" Talking of the origin of language, Johnson said, " It must have come by inspiration. A thousand,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 pages
...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 fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade f Tommy Townshend to lend him... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...Here lies our good tEdmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, 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... | |
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