 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...with 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,...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 - 360 pages
...with all learning, yet straining his throat, [vote : To persuade 15 Tommy Townshend to lend him a Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...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 - 1840 - 504 pages
...with 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,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...with all learning, yet straining his throat, [vote ; To persuade Tommy Townshend15 to lend him a Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...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 - 1841 - 548 pages
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshendt to lend him a vote: Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...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... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 512 pages
...engages the reflecting minority. The Liberator of the Hottentots, like the immortal Burke, — " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,...thought of convincing while they thought of dining ;" frequently talks an assembly of shallow men into marked and ill-mannered impatience, while discoursing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...fraught with 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,...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... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 562 pages
...that engages the reflecting minority. The Liberator of the Hottentots, like the immortal Burke, " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thonght of dining . ' frequently talks an assembly of shallow men into marked and ill-mannered impatience,... | |
 | 1842 - 592 pages
...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... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 590 pages
...was known to his contemporaries by the nickname of 'the Dinner-Bell.' 'Too deep for liis bearers, he went on refining; And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining!" Fox, so pre-eminent as a debater, appears with small dislinction in his authorship. Nay more, even... | |
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Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining... 
