 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...Yet some have declarTd, and it can't be denied 'em, That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide rem. Here lies our good Edmund,® whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; AVho, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.'7'... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...intolerance, without being reminded of the sentiment originally applied to an English statesman : He narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. But we would by no means intimate that all those geologists whose views respecting the deluge coincide... | |
 | Veterinary medicine - 1881 - 274 pages
...glorious powers to the scramblings and squabblings of the day, and, " Born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. " And now, gentlemen, you will allow me to discuss, in conclusion, this institution, which is dedicated... | |
 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...Burke, of whom Goldsmith said, with such truth, long ago 'that born for the universe, "he narrowed his mind" And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.' " The comment has led Leslie Chard II, who considers the question of Wordsworth's conversion to Burke... | |
 | Robert Tarbell Oliver - History - 1986 - 332 pages
...to all of them the disparagement Goldsmith applied to Burke— Who, born for the universe narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. 19 Mistakes in tactics there may have been, even serious mistakes. And the prosecutors may, indeed,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1994 - 518 pages
...EVEN IN HIM, THE . . . IDEAS. In "Retaliation: A Poem" (11. 29-32) Oliver Goldsmith says of Burke, "Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,.../ And to party gave up what was meant for mankind" (The Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith, 5 vols., ed. Arthur Friedman [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...Puristen des Augustan Age sah, schrieb 1774 dieses scherzhafte Epitaph über seinen freund Edmund Burke: "Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,...or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, and to party gave up what was meant for mankind."1 Goldsmith drückte damit aus,... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - Art - 1993 - 512 pages
...Puristen des Augustan Age sah, schrieb 1774 dieses scherzhafte Epitaph über seinen freund Edmund Burke: "Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,...or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed bis mind, and to party gave up what was meant for mankind."1 Goldsmith drückte damit aus,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...imparted a distinctiveness to his views on specific questions. Was Goldsmith right to say that he was one whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind 18 or is there something besides... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...on the celebrated orator, Mr. Burke: 'Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for...meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote; 1 Referring to Dr John Douglas... | |
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Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind: Tho' 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,... 
