 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,...  The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge - Page 2921774Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...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 manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve iia in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civally steering, When they judg'd without skill he was Elill hard of heai-ing ; [anil... | |
 | John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 638 pages
...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 manners, our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When theyjudg'dwithoutskill,hewas still hard of hearing; \Vhen they... | |
 | 1811 - 644 pages
...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 manners, our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 556 pages
...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 manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilily steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...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 manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...was striking, resistless, and grand ; Hismanners were gen tie, complying, and bland ; Still borrf'to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still ha rd of hearing ; [and... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - Devon (England) - 1817 - 346 pages
...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 manners, our heart -. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...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 manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When... | |
 | Scotland - 1867 - 816 pages
...trustworthy. Reynolds was a prime favourite everywhere, and verses were written in his praise : — "Still born to improve us in every part-- His pencil our faces, his manners our art." Garrick, " light and alive in every muscle and in every feature, came bounding on the stage ;... | |
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