 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 182 trang
...too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient, And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 540 trang
...Ridge, a gentleman belonging to the Irish bar. J Sir Joshua Reynolds. § An eminent attorney. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was... | |
 | 1865 - 342 trang
...too cool ; for a drudge disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest 16 William, whose heart was a mint, [was in't ; While the owner ne'er knew half the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 trang
...disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. WILLIAM FALCONER: 1732-1769. Falconer, a Scotch sailor, is noted for The Shipwreck, a descriptive poem... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 trang
...disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. D THE INTRODUCTION OF GUNPOWDER. (Gibbon.) ~HE chemists of China or Europe had found, by casual or... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - 1910 - 530 trang
...patriot too cool ; for a drudge disobedient. And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. So perfect a summary of a great man's character does not exist within the compass of fourteen lines.... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 trang
...disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. 40 In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed and earnest eye Over her snow-cold breast and angry cheek HO Kept Here Cumberland lies, having acted his p<irts, The Terence4 of England, the mender of hearts ; A flattering... | |
 | Frank Frankfort Moore - 1910 - 534 trang
...disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. So perfect a summary of a great man's character does not exist within the compass of fourteen lines.... | |
 | 1910 - 540 trang
...disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, uneniploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - 1910 - 370 trang
...disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold and cut blocks with a razor." If Burke was to be "bounded in a nut-shell"—if his genius, the prostitution of his genius and the... | |
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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; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir,... 
