 | 1824 - 720 pagina’s
...deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, when they thought of dining. Though equal to all things — for all things unfit,...And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pagina’s
...for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit,...And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient ; In short, 'twas his fate unemploy'd or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; ead. ODE ON THE ПEАTH OF MR. THOMSON. THE SCENE...yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the s pnrsue the expedient. In short, 'twas hie fate, unemploy'd, orin place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pagina’s
...for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining : Though equal to all things, for all things unfit,...And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 370 pagina’s
...for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining ; In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place,...To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor." " What humour and wit there are in that poem of Goldsmith's ! and where is there any thing equal to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 458 pagina’s
...as one who was kept back in his dazzling, wayward career, by the supererogation of his talents — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought for... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pagina’s
...as one who was kept back in his dazzling, wayward career, by the supererogation of his talents — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. ff Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 pagina’s
...as one who was kept back in his dazzling, wayward career, by the supererogation of his talents — Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, tells us that the only person whose conversation he ever sought for... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pagina’s
...And thought of convincing while they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all thini;* unfit. Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit...And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a rawr.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pagina’s
...for his hearers, still went on refin ing, And thought of convincing, while they thought о dining: $! \. a L 1 V - 9z r (bC ,G w In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in piafe, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.... | |
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Though fraught with all learning, yet 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 they thought of dining: Though equal to all things,... 
