 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...•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... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 640 pages
...It will be said that he may thank himself; that he wrote as a partisan, and was treated as such, " And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." But the petulance of genius should be considered rather as its misfortune than its fault. And if we are disgusted... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1825 - 848 pages
...Walter Scott's character as a Man. " If there were a writer, who, ' bora for the universe' — • Narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mukinJ— ' who, from the height of his genius look1825.'] ing abroad into nature, and scanning the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 426 pages
...overlook the press. If there were a writer, who " born for the universe" — ... " — — — Narrow'd his 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... | |
 | James Oswald - 1825 - 538 pages
...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... | |
 | James Oswald - 1825 - 518 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...the moderation u 1 and and liberality of Pope, who had reason to believe, that his friend too much narrowed his mind, ' And to party gave up what was meant for maukind.' He therefore cautious him in the form of confident expectation : ' Resentment, indeed, may... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...genius was sueh, We seareely ean praise it or blame it too mueh ; Who, bom for the universe, narrow'd Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1825 - 378 pages
...remember the verses, in which he is described to be one, " Who, born for the universe, narrowed bis mind, And to party gave up, what was meant for mankind." But, if he had not been the very thing he was, would s(i many general truths have fallen from him ? Should... | |
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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, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. 
