| Charles Butler - 1824 - 476 páginas
...modern times, without a rival or a second. We remember the verses, in which he is described to be one, " Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, " And to party gave up, what was meant for mankind." is some extenuation of them that, in his time, equal' subserviency, and equal adulation, were chargeable... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 páginas
...it can't be denied 'em, That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund,6 whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 páginas
...reflect on the loss of ' such an intellectual feast, regret that he should be characterised as the man, " Who born for the universe narrowed his mind, " And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." Talking of the origin of language, Johnson said, " It must have come by inspiration. A thousand, nay... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 páginas
...That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was inch, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind : (9) Counsellor John Ridge, a gentleman... | |
| 1825 - 848 páginas
...world with his opinion of Sir Walter Scott's character as a Man. " If there were a writer, who, ' bora for the universe' — • Narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mukinJ— ' who, from the height of his genius look1825.'] ing abroad into nature, and scanning the... | |
| 1825 - 810 páginas
...favours the world with his opinion of Sir Walter Scott's character as a Man. " If there were a writer, who, ' born for the universe" — ' Narrowed his mind. And to party gave up what waB meant for mankind—' who, from the height of his genius look• Perhapi the finest reene in all... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 426 páginas
...overlook the press. If there were a writer, who " born for the universe" — ... " — — — Narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind — " who, from the height of his genius looking abroad into nature, and scanning the recesses of the... | |
| James Oswald - 1825 - 518 páginas
...reproach, so frequently cast on those who have taken a prominent share in public affairs, that he narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. From this correspondence it will also be seen, that while Mr Oswald was engaged in the most laborious... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 páginas
...the moderation u 1 and and liberality of Pope, who had reason to believe, that his friend too much narrowed his mind, ' And to party gave up what was meant for maukind.' He therefore cautious him in the form of confident expectation : ' Resentment, indeed, may... | |
| James Oswald - 1825 - 538 páginas
...so frequently cast on those who have taken a prominent share in public affairs, that • he narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. From this correspondence it will also be seen, that while Mr Oswald was engaged in the most laborious... | |
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