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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, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 348
by James Boswell - 1922
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...lies our good Edmund, whose genius was sueh, We seareely ean praise it or blame it too mueh ; Who, bom , if w Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him...
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Memorials of the public life and character of James Oswald, in a ...

James Oswald - 1825 - 518 pages
...the reproach, so frequently cast on those who have taken a prominent share in public affairs, that he narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. From this correspondence it will also be seen, that while Mr Oswald was engaged in the most laborious...
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Memorials of the Public Life and Character of the Rt. Hon. James Oswald of ...

James Oswald - 1825 - 538 pages
...reproach, so frequently cast on those who have taken a prominent share in public affairs, that • he narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. From this correspondence it will also be seen, that while Mr Oswald was engaged in the most laborious...
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The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits, Volumes 1-2

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 482 pages
...possibly read the manuscript after he has once written it, or overlook the press. If there were a writer, who, "born for the universe" — " • Narrow'd his mind, And to party gave np what- was meant for mankind — '* • who, from the height of his genius looking abroad into nature,...
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The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and ...

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, " Who born for the universe narrowed 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, nay...
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Memoirs of John Dryden

Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...of Pope. and inequalities under an assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill— Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind, — Churchill was one of the first to seek in the « Mac - Flecknoe, » the « Absalom » and the »Hind...
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Memoirs of John Dryden, Volumes 1-2

Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill— Who, born for the universe, narrow' d his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind, — Churchill was one of the first to seek in the « Mac - Flecknoe, » the « Absalom » and the «Hind...
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The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 1

sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...verses and inequalities under an assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill — Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind,— Churchill was one of the first to seek in the " Mac-Flecknoe," the "Absalom," and the " Hind and Panther,"...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1827 - 576 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 Townsend to give him...
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Parriana: Miscellaneous materials bearing on Parr's controversies

Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...we, when we reflect on the loss of such an intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, ' Who born for the universe narrow'd his...' And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ? ' " Dr. Johnson seems to have been imperfectly acquainted with Berkeley's doctrine," says the annotator...
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