 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 Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ... - Page 104by Oliver Goldsmith - 1791Full view - About this book
 | 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
...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...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
...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...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 - 1818 - 294 pages
...to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or hetter hehind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, 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... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...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...pencil our faces, his manners our heart: To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing; When... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 382 pages
...to tell you my mind, He has not left a better or wiser behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand, His manners were gentle, complying, and...pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...to tell you my mind, He bus uot 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, Hii pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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...pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing : When... | |
| |
