 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 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,... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote l 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 untii, Too nice for a statesman,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsend9 to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing , while they thought of (lining ; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend9 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,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...Village. 13. With words of learned length, and thund'ring sound. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Vittage. 14. Too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 15. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 484 pages
...interrupted. CHAPTER XIII. BATH COACH CONVERSATION. AFTER our travellers had. dined, the conversation was renewed by the English gentleman's repeating Goldsmith's...they thought of dining; In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor." " What humour and wit... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 734 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... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; W)io, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of din ing. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit : Too nice for a statesman... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1851 - 596 pages
...fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Towushcudt to lend him & 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 - 1851 - 162 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,... | |
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