 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...  Sketches of Great Painters - Page 192by Edwin Watts Chubb - 1915 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pages
...help it? a special attorney. Here Reynold? is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless,...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corrcgio's,... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 346 pages
...characteristic to be omitted. " Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless,...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...attorney. Here Reynolds* u laid, and, to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or hetter hehind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His...and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, 71 is pencil our faces, his manners our heart: To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...sapientia Laeli *, may ****** " Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, " He has not left a wiser or better behind : " His pencil was striking, resistless,...averse, yet most civilly steering, — " When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; " When they talk'd of their Raffaelles, Correggios,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...help it ? a special attorney. Here Reynolds>J is kid, and to tell you my mind, He bus uot left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless,...and bland; Still born to improve us in every part, Hii pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When they... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...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,...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing ; [and stuff', When they talk'd of their Raphaels,... | |
 | Collection - 1821 - 336 pages
...JOSHUA REYNOLDS. ar,l e. J Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mimi. He has left not a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless,...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff. hearing;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...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,...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...Clementina, School for Wives, &c. &c. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind: His pencil was striking, resistless,...without skill he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregio's, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet ">, and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT.... | |
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