 Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit, For a patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir,...  Works - Page 365by Maria Edgeworth - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fale, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest 'William, whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient; In short, 't was his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, [in 't; While the owner ne'er knew half the good... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart was a . mint, [was in't; While the owner ne'er knew half the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...e-.lient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart wu. a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that w as... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 848 pages
...patriot too cool, for a drudge disobedient ; And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. Tu short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. A literary work on a new plan, first suggested in 1750, and by some attributed to the Dodslcys, and... | |
 | Phrenology - 1824 - 720 pages
...a patriot too cool — for a drudge disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place,...sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. I have said that this description is almost phrenological. It is, at any rate, such as will at once... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William,! whose heart .was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...disobedient, And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient ; In short, 'twas his fate unemploy'd or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Of the lively and affectionate interest which Mr. Burke took in the success, both in life and in art,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...disobedient; And too fond of the right to pnrsue the expedient. In short, 'twas hie fate, unemploy'd, orin ke upon him all my worldly care, Whilst I did for a better s Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 370 pages
...refining, And thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining ; In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks...razor." " What humour and wit there are in that poem of Goldsmith's ! and where is there any thing equal to his 'Traveller ?'" Irishman. — " Yet this is... | |
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