 Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his...  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 446edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - English drama - 1924 - 552 pages
...wti'«tle them back." On Reynolds: "Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has left not a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand, H's manners were gentle, complying, and bland: Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our... | |
 | Deaf - 1925 - 784 pages
...poet intending SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS to add his own epitaph. "Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind...his manners our heart ; To coxcombs averse, yet most skillfully steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talked... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - English poetry - 1926 - 224 pages
...burn ye,— He was, could he help it ? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind...his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds HERE Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a better or wiser behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless and grand,...his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...greatest comic actor of ancient Rome. 5 Ben Jonson and the like Here Reynolds1 is laid, and to tell you (Q 141 His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - Painters - 1926 - 544 pages
...never permitted himself to speak critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies: His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His...part His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. Toward the end of Sir Joshua's life, troubles began to gather on the horizon. He had a paralytic stroke,... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - Painters - 1926 - 544 pages
...never permitted himself to speak critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies : His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His...part His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. Toward the end of Sir Joshua's life, troubles began to gather on the horizon. He had a paralytic stroke,... | |
 | Muriel Masefield - ARBLAY, FRANCES BURNEY1752-1840 - 1927 - 196 pages
...death-in-life at Court. Goldsmith voices the affectionate faith all his friends had in him in the lines: "Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart" Thackeray, after his studies in the society of the last half of the eighteenth century, recorded his... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a better or wiser ly in its kind. He held them up, and in his turn,...Thus showed his ready wit; — ' My head is twice 140 Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart: To coxcombs... | |
 | John Ruskin - Social problems - 1928 - 316 pages
...trumpet," &c. ;— less often, or at least less attentively, the preceding ones, far more important — " Still born to improve us in every part — His pencil our faces, his manners our heart; " and never, the most characteristic touch of all, near the beginning : — " Our dean shall be venison,... | |
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