| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...for mankind ; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsend9 to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,...sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. 10 Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...for mankind ; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend9 to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers,...fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short 't was his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor."1 Here... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...for mankind ; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend9 to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers,...fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short 't was his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.i" Here... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 734 pages
...can praise it, or blame it too mnch ; Who, hornfor the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party yave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with...to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, uuemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocl-i with, a razor. Tommy Townshend had... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, stitt went on refining, And thought of convincing, while...unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocki with a razor. Tommy Townshend bad confirmed in the last session the claim he formerly put forward... | |
| Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of din ing. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit :...sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Tommy Townshend had confirmed in the last session the claim he formerly put forward to a mention here.... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...Who, too deep for hu hearers, utill'went on rtfmlng, And thonght of convincing, while they thought nf dining. Though equal to all things, for all things...unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and eat blocks with a, razor. Tommy Townshend had confirmed in the last session the claim he formerly put... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still wait on refining, And thought of convincing, trhilr they thought of dining. Though equal to all things,...to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, uncmploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Tommy Townshend had... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...to the Irish bar. t Sir Joshua Reynolds. § An eminent attorney. || Vide page 111. T Vide page 111. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his...cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William.t whose heart was a mint, While the owner never knew half the good that was in't ; The pupil... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Towushcudt to lend him & vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on...sir, To eat mutton cold and cut blocks with a razor." * The history of this poem is a "curiosity of literature." Goldsmith had peculiarities which attracted... | |
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