 | 1842 - 592 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 512 pagina’s
...The Liberator of the Hottentots, like the immortal Burke, — " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining ;" frequently talks an assembly of shallow men into marked and ill-mannered impatience, while discoursing... | |
 | 1843 - 714 pagina’s
...minority. The liberator of the Hottentots, like the immortal Burke, " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining ;" frequently talks an assembly of shallow MI: ii into marked and ill-mannered impatience, while discoursing... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pagina’s
...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...: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cold ; for a drudge disobedient... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pagina’s
...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...: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cold ; for a drudge disobedient... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still dding-day, Death called aside the jocund groom With him ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge disobedient,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pagina’s
...straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote l Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while...dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things untii, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool ; fora drudge, disobedient... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pagina’s
...to carry the lessons of philosophy into an assembly of practical debaters. Simple old man ! — "He went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining." And yet who of all that generation has so powerfully influenced the political genius of England during... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pagina’s
...well-earned reward. 'If it was objected to him in his own day that, " too deep for his hearers," he "still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they 'thought of dining," that searching philosophy which pervades his speeches and writings, and is there wedded in such happy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pagina’s
...straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend9 to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while...Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient;... | |
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Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. 
