 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
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...to be omitted. ' 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...his manners our heart ; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talked of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...burn ye t 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...part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : (!) [See Life, vol. ii. p. 295.] (2) [ " To his gentle and happy composure of mind, our common friend... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...and 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...us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners owr heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1837 - 316 pages
...the last which the author wrote. " Here Reynolds Is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not kit a wiser or better behind , ... His pencil was striking,...and bland; Still born to improve us in every part, IBs pencil onr faces, Inn manners our bean." That he was an improver of human faces no one could be... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...and burn ye : He was, could he help it? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you y pictures spread ; The game of goose bom to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 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...grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; f?) Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : (!) [See... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1921 - 626 pages
...with love. And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above. *#*#** 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 g-raad,j His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, "*"... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...aye in loveliness. GOETHE — Wilfielm Meiskr's Travels. Ch. XIV. (Ch. III. 128 of Carlyle's Ed.) 18 ; I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra. DHYDEN — All for Love. Act II. Sc. 1. 7 GOLDSMITH — Retaliation. L. 139. 19 The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm ; The pregnant quarry... | |
 | Florence Heywood - Painting - 1923 - 424 pages
...eighteenth century form-ality of style, adequately illustrate the pedantic spirit of the age :— " His pencil was striking, resistless and grand, His...his manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering. When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing. When they talked of... | |
 | Florence Heywood - Painting - 1923 - 424 pages
...illustrate the pedantic spirit of the age : — His pencil was striking, resistless and grand, Mis manners were gentle, complying and bland, Still born...his manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing. When they talked of... | |
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