 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 σελίδες
...statesman, too proud for a wit ; "For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge, disobedi* ent; And too foud of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas...place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a ra; zor. •Vide page 65. $Mr. T. iuwnshemJ, member for ,Vyhitcbitrcb^ Here lies honest William*, whose... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 σελίδες
...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....While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in 't ; The pupil of impulse, it forc'd him along, His conduct still right, with his argument wrong... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 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....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 - 1821 - 236 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. In short, 'twas his fale, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 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; In short, 't was his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 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....Here lies honest William, whose heart was a . mint, [was in't; While the owner ne'er knew half the good that The pupil of impulse, it forced him along,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 σελίδες
...nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge disnti e-.lient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient....with a razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart wu. a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that w as The pupil of impulse, it forc.M him... | |
 | 1823 - 848 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 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....While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was ¡n't; The pupil of impulse, it forc'd him along, His conduct still right, with his argument wrong... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 σελίδες
...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...days perplex'd ; But by a silent and a peaceful de forc'd him along, His conduct still right, with his argument wrong ; Still aiming at honour, yet fearing... | |
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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... 
