 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 760 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 Seiten
...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 ; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ;... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 Seiten
...straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 Seiten
...straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote; Who, too deep for his hearers, still ibner's sons Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 Seiten
...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 Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 Seiten
...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. 1 Our very sign boards (said an illustrious friend to me) give evidence, that there has been a TITIAN... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...plagiarized from certain modern Latin poets in Paradise Lost. 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. For... | |
 | Nicholas K. Robinson, Edmund Burke - 1996 - 233 Seiten
...dinner bell", echoing Goldsmith's lines on his fellow Irishman: Who, too deep for his hearers, yet went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. 11 And in The Orawr< journey (Plate 73), Burke is placed in the histrionic company of aa& -« • 72.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...all that was pleasant in man. 1691 Retaliation (of Edmund Burke) 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 1692 Retaliation... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...all that was pleasant in man. 4177 Retaliatlon (of Edmund Burke) Who, too deep for his hearers, still of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises be Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. 4178... | |
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