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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. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 74
by James Boswell - 1821
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...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, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend 7 to lend him...
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Poems. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 584 pages
...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/7' Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend<8'...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a ..., Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...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' Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend...
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Biblical Repository and Quarterly Observer

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...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 6

Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...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 ; Tho' fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshcnd to lend him...
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The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or Miscellaneous Collections in History ...

Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 404 pages
...Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, I 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. Who too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...Here lies our good 14 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. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, [vote : To persuade 15 Tommy Townshend...
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Memoir of the Life and Character of Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His ...

Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, \Ve 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, yet straining his throat. To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him...
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Poems and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...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. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend || to lend...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 15

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 pages
...subjects purely political ; and although Goldsmith has said, that ' Born for the universe, he narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind,' yet we think it quite problematical whether Burke's memory would have been cherished with more profound...
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