 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, Who born for the universe narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ! My revered friend walked down with me to the beach, where we embraced and parted with tenderness,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill— Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind, — Churchill was one of the first to seek in the « Mac - Flecknoe, » the « Absalom » and the »Hind... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill— Who, born for the universe, narrow' d his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind, — Churchill was one of the first to seek in the « Mac - Flecknoe, » the « Absalom » and the «Hind... | |
 | 1827 - 576 pages
...Edmund Burke, his friend, must continue applicable, so long as this state of the legislature endures ? " Good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can...straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townsend to give him a vote." ' One thing remarkable on this occasion is, that Mr. Canning renounced entirely the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill — Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind,— Churchill was one of the first to seek in the " Mac-Flecknoe," the "Absalom," and the " Hind and Panther,"... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, ' Who born for the universe narrow'd his mind, ' And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ? ' " Dr. Johnson seems to have been imperfectly acquainted with Berkeley's doctrine," says the annotator... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...written for him by Goldsmith : — Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely con praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the...learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshcnd to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1859 - 1090 pages
...strong reasons for their change of opinion. lie did not say of them that Goldsmith said of Burke : — "Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, " And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." He did not wish to insinuate any change of that kind, but he would say to those right hon. Gentlemen,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1829 - 344 pages
...assertion that he belonged to the school of Dryden. Churchill— Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind,— Churchill was one of the first to seek in the " MacFlecknoe," the " Absalom," and the " Hind and Panther,"... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, ' Who born for the universe narrow'd his mind, ' And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ? ' " Dr. Johnson seems to have been imperfectly acquainted with Berkeley's doctrine," says the annotator... | |
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Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind... 
