 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...  Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines - Էջ 46խմբագրել է - 1812Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Florence Heywood - 1923 - 424 էջ
...illustrate the pedantic spirit of the age : — His pencil was striking, resistless and grand, Mis manners were gentle, complying and bland, Still born...his manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing. When they talked of... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1924 - 552 էջ
...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 gentle, complying, and bland: Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our... | |
 | 1925 - 784 էջ
...poet intending SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS to add his own epitaph. "Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His...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 - 220 էջ
...burn ye, — He was, could he help it ? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His...his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 էջ
...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 our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 էջ
...greatest comic actor of ancient Rome. 5 Ben Jonson and the like Here Reynolds1 is laid, and to tell you my 141 His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - 1926 - 544 էջ
...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 - 544 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Muriel Masefield - 1927 - 196 էջ
...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... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 էջ
...special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a better or wiser ly in its kind. He held them up, and in his turn,...Thus showed his ready wit; — ' My head is twice 140 Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart: To coxcombs... | |
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