| Horace Smith - 1836 - 326 páginas
...sociable beings, and useful members of society. Goldsmith very properly condemns the man of talent, " who narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." " If the division of the male community into grades and classes be a confessed evil, what shall we... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 260 páginas
...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 ; Tho' fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him... | |
| 1837 - 1068 páginas
...intolerance, without being reminded of the sentiment originally applied to an English statesman : He narrow'd e scholar to sink under his labors But we would by no means intimate that all those geologists whose views respecting the deluge coincide... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 páginas
...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. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend 7 to lend him... | |
| Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 404 páginas
...genius was such, I 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. 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... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 páginas
...They wrong- themselves, they wrong their country, by following the example of the statesman, AVho, born for the universe, narrowed his mind. And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. All parties have their several merits and defects, which in case of a wise coalition might be harmonised... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1839 - 472 páginas
...of Burke, and support myself by the authority of Goldsmith, who ventured early to lament that he " narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." * But the awful history of our own times has persuaded me to forbear ; for of Burke, at least, posterity... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 páginas
...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. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, [vote : To persuade 15 Tommy Townshend... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 páginas
...genius was such, \Ve 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. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat. To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him... | |
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