 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 str.
...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 - 1800 - 192 str.
...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,... | |
 | 1810 - 702 str.
...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 str.
...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 - 1805 - 264 str.
...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 str.
...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,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1808 - 302 str.
...another, K 2 CHAPTER XIII. Bath Coach Conversation. AFTER our travellers had dined, the conversation wa s renewed by the english gentleman's repeating Goldsmith's...whilst they thought of dining, In short 'twas his fate unernploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor." " What humour and wit... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 str.
...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 - 1810 - 308 str.
...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 - 1816 - 240 str.
...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,... | |
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Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining... 
