 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.  The Friend: A Series of Essays - Página 130de Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 448 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep a lynx, and not a giant quite : I'll Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 páginas
...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, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 páginas
...Vide page g3. 6 Vide page g3. 7 Mr T. Townshend, member for Whitchurch. RETALIATION. 95 Who, too deep 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, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | 1842 - 982 páginas
...the reflecting 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 men into marked and ill-maunered impatience, while discoursing... | |
 | 1827 - 496 páginas
...of speaking. the popular report of him, on the part of his associates and admirers, was, that " he went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." When arguments against a systematic, laborious, and long continued study of the art of speaking fail,... | |
 | 1827 - 500 páginas
...the vehicle, the popular report of him, on the part of his associates and admirers, was, that " he went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." Can any one believe that this would have been said of Burke, in his lifetime by his friends, had he... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 páginas
...Parliamentary auditors, yet the cultivated classes throughout Europe have reason to be thankful that ' he went on refining, ' And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining.' Our very sign-boards, (said an illustrious friend to me,) give evidence that there has been a Titian... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 páginas
...all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshcnd 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, for all thini;* unfit. Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...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, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit:... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...learning, yet t training his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep B ^o(S ) Though equal to all things, for all tilings unfit-; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit :... | |
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