 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 - Page 130by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1831 - 790 pages
...learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade tTommy 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 stateman, too proud for a wit; For... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...among the greatest was one, who, although it has been said of him that " too deep for his hearers he went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining," was yet the most splendid orator of modern times, the renowned Edmund Burke. There, too, was Pitt,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 450 pages
...renewed by the English gentleman's repeating Goldsmith's celebrated lines on Burke: " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ; In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in plaee, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...learning, kept 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 - 1837 - 472 pages
...Irish har. 3 Sir Joshua Reynolds. * An eminent attorney. 5 Vide page g3. 6 Vide page g3. 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;... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pages
...sphere of thought. There could of course be no communion between natures so different. " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, yet for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit."... | |
 | 1837 - 552 pages
...sphere of thought. There could of course be no communion between natures so different. " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, yet for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit."... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 404 pages
...for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. 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 - 1839 - 242 pages
...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 ;... | |
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