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
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 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 ; [and... | |
| Epitaphs - 1822 - 382 pages
...to tell you my mind, He has left not 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 stuff, He shifted... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 296 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind; His pencil was striking, resistless gaze averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing: When... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 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 When they talk'd... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...to tell yon 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... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 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 ; .... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 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... | |
| 1825 - 424 pages
...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 manners our heart. ... ? 'dMmtatgXXIV.— Thursday. High Water, Morn.IV. 22m.— Aft.V. 47m. FLORA, — The daisy is now... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, nd ! my benefactor ! it is, it must be here, that...worthiest of men, from the beginning I suspected it, but w averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When... | |
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