| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pagina’s
...straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsend9 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... | |
| 1846 - 502 pagina’s
...great teacher, whom a listless and impatient House of Commons too often thought a bore. He " Still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining." Even this very dagger-scene was in some respects a matter-of-fact affair — elevated into an approach... | |
| 1847 - 540 pagina’s
...learned length, and thund'ring sound. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Vittage. 14. Too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 15. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in... | |
| 1847 - 824 pagina’s
...genius was such We scarcely cnn praise it, or blame it too much; Who too deep for his hearers Mill went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." Burke however was not only a statesman, a genius, a scholar, but an orator. He did not always like... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pagina’s
...quoted, " 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... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 734 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...dining. 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... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 744 pagina’s
...him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still wait on refining, And thought of convincing, trhilr they thought of dining. 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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pagina’s
...straining hie throat. To penuade Tommy Tuwneend to give him a vote ; Who too deep for hi* hcarcre, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining." And if in consequence it was his fate to "cut block» with a razor," I may be permitted to add, that... | |
| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1849 - 338 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... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - 332 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... | |
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