 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 492 páginas
...said in so happy a manner by Goldsmith of this great man : — Who too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining.* And if in consequence it was his fate to " cut blocks with a razor," I may be permitted to add, that... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 páginas
...his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend l to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still f ! And work — work — work, Till the stars shine through the roof ! I ; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice - for a statesman, too proud for a wit... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 páginas
...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 ; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 páginas
...straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote ; 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... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 páginas
...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, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 564 páginas
...was known to his contemporaries by the nickname of ' the Dinner-Bell.' ' Too deep for his hearers, he went on refining ; And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ! ' Fox, so pre-eminent as a debater, appears with small distinction in his authorship. Nay more, even... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 páginas
...claim to the title. Wearisome as Burke's refinements appeared to his parliamentary auditors, yet the cultivated classes throughout Europe have reason to...thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. 1 Our very sign boards (said an illustrious friend to me) give evidence, that there has been a TITIAN... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 páginas
...plagiarized from certain modern Latin poets in Paradise Lost. 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, too proud for a wit. For... | |
 | Nicholas K. Robinson, Edmund Burke - 1996 - 233 páginas
...dinner bell", echoing Goldsmith's lines on his fellow Irishman: Who, too deep for his hearers, yet went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. 11 And in The Orawr< journey (Plate 73), Burke is placed in the histrionic company of aa& -« • 72.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 páginas
...all that was pleasant in man. 1691 Retaliation (of Edmund Burke) 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, too proud for a 1692 Retaliation... | |
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