 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle , complying, and bland; Stillborn 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 :... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, t I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation...titles of veneration to that enthusiastic, distant averse, yet most civilly steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing :... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...to tell you my luind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, less and the scented rose ; this red, And of a humbler...into the darkest gloom ( if neighbouring cypress, averse, yet most civilly steering; When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 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...born to improve us in every part,— His pencil our faces,—his manners our heart." ^~~,.^a 1, What happened to Sir Joshua Reynolds when the Royal Academy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland : Still bom to improve us in every part, His 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 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 out of hearing .' When... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 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 out of hearing : When... | |
 | Dulwich Picture Gallery - Art museums - 1914 - 416 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...part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. Of his knowledge, taste, and intellectual power his Discourses delivered to the Academy students are... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - Painters - 1915 - 330 pages
...to tell you my mind, He has not left a w1ser 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... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; 140 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 judged without skill he was still hard of hearing; When... | |
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