 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
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striding, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and...pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs avene, yet most civilly steering, When they jndgM without skill he was still bard of hearing ; When... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, n to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such...Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne,; pur heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and...Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil onr faces, hia manners our heart." That he was an improver of human faces no one could be more conscious... | |
 | Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...left a wiser or belter behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; Hia manners \vere gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve...pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs adverse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing :... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 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... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1832 - 324 pages
...to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and...to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, bis manners our heart." - That he was an improver of human faces no one could be more conscious than... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...tell yon ray mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind 1 Hit pencil was striking, resistless, and grand, His manners were gentle, complying, and bland : Still born to improve ns In every part, His pencil oar faces, bis manners oar heart : . To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...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 literature - 1837 - 534 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...part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : (!) [See Life, vol. ii. p. 295.] (2) [ " To his gentle and happy composure of mind, our common friend... | |
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