 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1839 - 486 pages
...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 - 1840 - 504 pages
...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 fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend ' to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...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 fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, [vote ; To persuade Tommy Townshend15 to lend him a Who, too deep for his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...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 fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshendt to lend him a vote: Who, too deep for his hearers,... | |
 | 1841 - 588 pages
...It was said of a great statesman of the last age, that he, " Though born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." It may be said in like manner of Warburton, that he sacrificed to the rearing a fanciful hypothesis... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...whose genins 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 to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow5 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,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pages
...whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, bom lor 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 to lend him a vote l Who, too deep for his hearers,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...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 a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pages
...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 a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,... | |
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Here lies our good Edmund, 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. 
