 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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 : [throat, Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his To persuade Tommy Townshend " to lend... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...uius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, nam)*-'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 Townshend" to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; ne, the poorest can no wants endure ; And which not done, the richest must be poor. Late as it Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...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. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...lies our good Edmund, ф 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 master of St. James' coffee-house, where the doctor, and his friends he has characterised in... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 368 pages
...We remember the verses, in which he is Described to be one, " Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up, what was meant for mankind." But, if he had not been the very thing he was, would so many general truths have fallen from him ?... | |
 | 1824 - 720 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 lend him a... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 430 pages
...\Ve remember the verses, in which he is described to be one, " Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, " And to party gave up, what was meant for mankind." is some extenuation of them that, in his time, equal subserviency, and equal adulation, were chargeable... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...Here lies our good Edmund,6 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 7 to lend him... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 426 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" — ... " — — —...mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind — " who, from the height of his genius looking abroad into nature, and scanning the recesses of the... | |
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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. 
