| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...was his failing ? come tell it, 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 : His pencil was striking, resistless and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying... | |
| Edward Edwards, Horace Walpole - Art, British - 1808 - 394 pages
...his elegant little Poem of RETALIATION, which, as far as it extends, is as juft as it is beautiful. " HERE REYNOLDS is laid, and to tell you my mind,. •» He has not left a better or wifer behind ! His pencil was ftriking, refiftleis, and grand, His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...failing ? come tell it, and burn ye— He was — could he help it-^a fpecial attorney. Here Reynoldsf is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left...ftriking, refiftlefs, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part — His pencil our faces, his manners... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...Then what was his failing ! come tell it, 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 ? His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners was gentle, complying,... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...Goldsmith, in his imaginary epitaph on Sir Joshua, has pleasantly alluded to hia defect of hearing: 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,... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...the amiable friend of the younger Scipio, — the mitis sapientia Laeli,53 may convey to posterity " 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... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...Goldsmith, in his imaginary epitaph on Sir Joshua, has pleasantly alluded to his defect of hearing: 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,... | |
| John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 638 pages
...on Sir JR are worth transcribing, though the character was left unfinished, by Goldsmith s death : " 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,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...Goldsmith s fine feast, who has written fine books' Heuren send* us good m«at, but the Dtvilimdi eioki. '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,... | |
| John Walker - 1814 - 638 pages
...transcribing, though the character was left mijinished, by Goldsmith's -death : — " Here Reynold's 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,... | |
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