 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...Yet some have declar'd, and it can't be denied 'em, That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund,® whose genius was such,...or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind/7' Though fraught with all learning,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...Yet some have declared, and it can't be denied 'em, That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. periment. In the same manner a crowd gathers round...madness, and they begin by teasing the devoted animal on narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning,... | |
 | 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,...or blame it too much; / Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, / And to party gave up what was meant for mankind" (The Collected Works of Oliver... | |
 | 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 the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning,... | |
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Here lies our good Edmund, 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. 
