...just quoted, " If it was objected to him in his own day, that, ' too deep for his hearers,' he '• still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining ;' that searching philosophy, which pervades his speeches and writings, and is there wedded in such...

...genius was such We scarcely cnn praise it, or blame it too much; Who too deep for his hearers Mill went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." Burke however was not only a statesman, a genius, a scholar, but an orator. He did not always like...

...with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; W)io, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of din ing. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit : Too nice for a statesman ; too proud for...

...conversation was renewed by the English gentleman's repeating Goldsmith's celebrated lines on Burke : " Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, whilst they thought of dining; In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, sir, To eat mutton...

...what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still wait on refining, And thought of convincing, trhilr they thought of dining. Though equal to all things,...

...what wos meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, stitt went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. Though equal to all...

...straining hie throat. To penuade Tommy Tuwneend to give him a vote ; Who too deep for hi* hcarcre, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining." And if in consequence it was his fate to "cut block» with a razor," I may be permitted to add, that...

...Burke generally emptied the House. He was called " the dinner bell;" and it was said that — " He went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." And he thought if his speeches were cut into four they would read much better than they did. He would...

...was known to his contemporaries by the nickname of" the Dinner-Bell." " Too deep for his hearers, he went on refining ; And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ! " Fox, so pre-eminent as a debater, appears with small distinction in his authorship. Nay more, even...

...was known to his contemporaries by the nickname of "the Dinner-Bell." " Too deep for his hearers, he went on refining ; And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining ! " Fox, so pre-eminent as a debater, appears with small distinction in his authorship. Nay more, even...