...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...

...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 bis authorship. Nay more, even...

...the reflecting minority. The liherator 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 assemhly of shallow men into marked and ill-mannered impatience, while discoursing...

...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, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit...

...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, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit...

...all learning, yet 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 they thought of dining ; Though equal to all things, for all things untii, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;...

...all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep n neighbour Dodson's wedding-day, Death called aside the jocund groom With him Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit :...

...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...

...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...

...vote ; Who loo deep for ha hoirora, mill wont on refinine, And thought of convincing, wliilo III -y thought of dining.'* And if in consequence it was his fate to " cut block* with a razor," I may be permitted to add, that in respect of Truth though not of Genius, the...