 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 Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Стр. 124авторы: John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Florence Heywood - 1923 - Страниц: 424
...eighteenth century form-ality of style, adequately illustrate the pedantic spirit of the age :— " His pencil was striking, resistless and grand, His...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering. When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing. When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios,... | |
 | Florence Heywood - 1923 - Страниц: 424
...illustrate the pedantic spirit of the age : — His pencil was striking, resistless and grand, Mis manners were gentle, complying and bland, Still born...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing. When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios,... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1924 - Страниц: 552
...friends, as a huntsman hit pack, For he knew when he pleased he could wti'«tle them back." On Reynolds: "Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has left not a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand, H's manners were... | |
 | 1925 - Страниц: 784
...Washington, D. c. and was unfinished, the poet intending SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS to add his own epitaph. "Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind,...his manners our heart ; To coxcombs averse, yet most skillfully steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talked... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - Страниц: 220
...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...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Coreggios,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - Страниц: 928
...lived 4 Roscius was the greatest comic actor of ancient Rome. 5 Ben Jonson and the like Here Reynolds1 141 His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - 1926 - Страниц: 544
...never permitted himself to speak critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies: His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His...part His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. Toward the end of Sir Joshua's life, troubles began to gather on the horizon. He had a paralytic stroke,... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - 1926 - Страниц: 544
...never permitted himself to speak critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies : His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His...part His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. Toward the end of Sir Joshua's life, troubles began to gather on the horizon. He had a paralytic stroke,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - Страниц: 744
...and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above. Retaliation, 1774 302 Sir Joshua Reynolds HERE Reynolds is laid, and 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... | |
 | Muriel Masefield - 1927 - Страниц: 196
...death-in-life at Court. Goldsmith voices the affectionate faith all his friends had in him in the lines: "Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart" Thackeray, after his studies in the society of the last half of the eighteenth century, recorded his... | |
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