 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 頁
...: 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;...fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 't was his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir— To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 頁
...drudge disobedient ; 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." This epitaph, or rather piece of badinage, written, be it observed, at a time when the subject of it... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 頁
...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 riglit, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 346 頁
...unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient ; 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." This epitaph, or rather... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 頁
...Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit ; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; ?OT a patriot too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And...expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in play, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. Here lies honest William, whose heart was... | |
 | Hugh Alexander Law - 1926 - 328 頁
...dining; 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,...to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor. To cut blocks with a... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 頁
...Tho' 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. 40 In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 頁
...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;...to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor."2 The sentiments of... | |
 | N. S. Ramaswami - 1984 - 628 頁
...appear black to all his contemporaries. Oliver Goldsmith, for example, says of him in Retaliation: "Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint, While the owner never knew half the good that was in 't." It was not because of William's interest in the Raja that... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 頁
...Dining; 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,...expedient. In short 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in play, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor." The lines on Mr. Garrick are perhaps 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, unemployed or in place, sir,... 
