 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...fraught with all 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 : Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice fora statesman,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...fraught withalllearning, yet straininghis 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,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...Dr. Goldsmith, that nice and acute discerner of character, alluded to this in the following lines, " Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." This rendered him so unqualified to manage the impeachment against Warren... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 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, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuadeTommyTownshendi 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...Tho* fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend * tolendhimavote; 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsendf 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,... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote; . .... .'-. Who, \ 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...with all learning, yet straining his r-» throat, , To persuade Tommy Townshend ' to lend him a vote 5 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy To wnshend i2 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,... | |
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Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining... 
