 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...  The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith - Pagina 53door Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 254 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pagina’s
...Then what was his failing? come tell it, and burn ye : He was, could he help it? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He...without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,1 and only took snuff. ON DR... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 pagina’s
...what was his failing? come tell it, and burn ye,— He was, could be help it ? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He...grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland Mill born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, bis manners our heart : To coxcomts averse,... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pagina’s
...als the following lines, by Goldsmith, in the Retaliation, are briefly, yet strongly, expressive : Here Reynolds is laid; and to tell you my mind, He...striking, resistless, and grand. His manners were gentle.complying, and bland. Still born to improve us in every part ; His pencil our faces, — his... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...Then what was his failing ? eome tell it, and bum ye,— He was, eould he help it? a speeial attorney. ondeseend to take a bit. So, when Cadenus eould not hide, He ehose to justify, his pride ; Cons peneil was striking, resistioss and grand ; His manners were gentle, eomplying and bland ; Still bom... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1828 - 606 pagina’s
...the melody of good feeling and of good sense. How often are we forced to envy Sir Joshua Reynolds, " To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering-, When...judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing." At many a sermon should we not be delighted to " shift our trumpet" as he did ? At the theatres, indeed,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pagina’s
...Then what was his failing? come tell it, and burn ye : He was, could he help it? a special attorney. efore, The various terrors of that horrid shore ; Those blazing suns that dart talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,« and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT.... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pagina’s
...following character of Sir Joshua, the justice of which is acknowledged by Buswell, and other writers : " Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind,...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above. . . . Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell yon t ? ' From better habitations spnrned, Reluctant dost thou rove ? pur heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pagina’s
...melancholy interest, from being the last which the author wrote. " Here Reynolds Is laid, and, to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind...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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pagina’s
...it, and barn ye He was, could he help it? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and, 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 bland ; Still born to improve... | |
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