 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 - Strana 130podľa Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - Počet stránok 448Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 592
...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... | |
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 788
...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... | |
 | 1843 - Počet stránok 358
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Počet stránok 336
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Počet stránok 680
...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... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - Počet stránok 514
...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 ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Počet stránok 738
...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 :... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 600
...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 - Počet stránok 484
...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - Počet stránok 582
...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... | |
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