Bath Coach Conversation

After our travellers had dined, the 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 cold, and cut blocks with a razor.’ ²¹⁵