Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. 1785-1824 - Page 290edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
| James Oswald - 1825 - 538 pages
...so frequently cast on those who have taken a prominent share in public affairs, that • he narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. From this correspondence it will also be seen, that while Mr Oswald was engaged in the most laborious... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 426 pages
...overlook the press. If there were a writer, who " born for the universe" — ... " — — — Narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind — " who, from the height of his genius looking abroad into nature, and scanning the recesses of the... | |
| James Oswald - 1825 - 518 pages
...reproach, so frequently cast on those who have taken a prominent share in public affairs, that he narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. From this correspondence it will also be seen, that while Mr Oswald was engaged in the most laborious... | |
| Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, " Who born for the universe narrowed his mind, " And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." Talking of the origin of language, Johnson said, " It must have come by inspiration. A thousand, nay... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 442 pages
...reflect on the loss of such an intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, Who born for the universe narrow' d his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ! My revered friend walked down with me to the beach, where we embraced and parted with tenderness,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...of Pope. and inequalities under an assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill— Who, born for the universe, narrow' d his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind, — Churchill was one of the first to seek in the « Mac - Flecknoe, » the « Absalom » and the «Hind... | |
| James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, Who born for the universe narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ! My revered friend walked down with me to the beach, where we embraced and parted with tenderness,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill— Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind, — Churchill was one of the first to seek in the « Mac - Flecknoe, » the « Absalom » and the »Hind... | |
| 1827 - 576 pages
...Edmund Burke, his friend, must continue applicable, so long as this state of the legislature endures ? " Good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can...or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill — Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind,— Churchill was one of the first to seek in the " Mac-Flecknoe," the "Absalom," and the " Hind and Panther,"... | |
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