 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 σελίδες
...unemploy'd or in pbcc, Sir, TO eat mutton coM, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honeft William, wbofc heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in Ч ¡ The pupil of impulfc, it forc'd him along, Hiscnnduft ftili right, with his argument wrong... | |
 | Charles M'Cormick - 1798 - 402 σελίδες
...cool ; for a drudge, difobedient ; " And too fond of the right to purfue the expedient. " In fhort, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, " To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor." Thofe, who were intimately acquainted with Mr. BURKE during the firft fix or eight years of his public... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 σελίδες
...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....cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest Wjlliam, whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't ; The pupil... | |
 | 1801 - 554 σελίδες
...difobedient, And too for.d of the right to purfue the ixptJitat. In (hört, 'twao his fate, uncmploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. (/) Author of the Weft-Indian, Fafhionable Lover, the Brothers, and other dramatic pieces. (£) Donor... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1802 - 130 σελίδες
...fond of the right, to purfue the expedient. In fhort, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, fir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honeft (6) William, whofe heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 σελίδες
...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....cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William,f whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne 'er knew half the good that was in't ; The pupil... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 σελίδες
...; ' Mr. T. Townshend, Member for Whitchurch. H For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient....half the good that was in't; The pupil of impulse, it forc'd him along, His conduct still right, with his argument wrong ; Still aiming at honour, yet fearing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 σελίδες
...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....razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart was a miut. While the owner ne'er knew halt the good that was in't ; The pupil of impulse, it forc'd him... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1808 - 302 σελίδες
...refining, And thought of convincing, 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 there are in that poem of Goldsmith's ! and where is there any thing equal to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 σελίδες
...patriot too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right, to pursue the exfiedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place,...cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, J whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't ; The pupil of impulse,... | |
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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, too proud for a wit : For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient... 
