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 - Seite 130von Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1812 - 448 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1842 - 592 Seiten
...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 - 788 Seiten
...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 - 358 Seiten
...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 - 336 Seiten
...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 - 680 Seiten
...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 - 514 Seiten
...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 - 738 Seiten
...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 - 600 Seiten
...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 - 484 Seiten
...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 - 582 Seiten
...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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