| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 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/7' Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend<8'... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...lies our good Edmund,® whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; AVho, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.'7' Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend... | |
| 1837 - 1068 pages
...intolerance, without being reminded of the sentiment originally applied to an English statesman : He narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. But we would by no means intimate that all those geologists whose views respecting the deluge coincide... | |
| Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...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 ; Tho' fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshcnd to lend him... | |
| Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 404 pages
...Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, I 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. Who too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, \Ve 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...Here lies our good 14 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, [vote : To persuade 15 Tommy Townshend... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...wrong their country, by following the example of the statesman, AVho, born for the universe, narrowed his mind. And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. All parties have their several merits and defects, which in case of a wise coalition might be harmonised... | |
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