 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. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without...  Life of Oliver Goldsmith - Էջ 179Austin Dobson - 1888 - 214 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803 - 716 էջ
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff." PLYMPTOH * Sir Joshui was so deaf, ai to be obliged to use an ear-trumpet in company. PLYMPTON ST.... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1803 - 662 էջ
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snufif." PLYMPTOK * Sir Joshua was 10 deaf, u to be obliged to use an en: trumpet in company. PLYMPTON... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 346 էջ
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet*, and only took snuff." Plympton St. Mary — adjoins the former parish, and contains 245 houses, and about 1600 inhabitants.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 էջ
...most eivilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. ARMSTRONG— AD 1709-79. THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH. DAUGHTER of Pœon, queen of every joy, II ygeia... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 էջ
...our faces, his manners pur heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing: When...and stuff ; He shifted his trumpet,* and only took sauft. By flattery unspoiled. ... BISHOP PERCY. DR. THOMAS PBRCY (1729-1811), afterwards bishop of... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 402 էջ
...their works or their names : a circumstance which blunts the sting of those lines in Retaliation— " When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and...stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff." The influence of an artist of commanding skill now began to be manifest: those who admired the moral... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 էջ
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff." To understand the last line it should be observed that Sir Joshua was so deaf, as to be obliged to... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 էջ
...a circumstance which blunts the sting of those lines in Retaliation — . "When you talked of your Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff*, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff." The influence of an artist of commanding skill now began to be manifest ; those who admired the moral... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 էջ
...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...stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.'" These were the last lines, says Malone, that the author wrote. He had written half a line more of this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 էջ
...yet most civilly steering, When they judg'dwithoutskilljhe was still hardof hearing: When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, ^ and only took snuff. (*) POSTSCRIPT. After the fourth edition of this Poem was printed, the publisher received the following... | |
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