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" 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 Circulator of useful knowledge, amusement, literature, science and ... - Page 126
1825
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Bcaumontt and Bens be hia Kellys above. » * * Here Reynolds* is laid ; and, to tell you my luind, y and tribe. Laburnum, rieb tn streaming gold ; syringa,...ivory pure ; The scentless and the scented rose ; gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...Then what was his failing? come tell it, and bum ye « He was, could he help it? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He...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...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pages
...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 has not left a better or wiser behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle,...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...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...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...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...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...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...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...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...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...
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The National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages: Chiefly ...

William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 512 pages
...noticed in the description given by Goldsmith of Sir Joshua, in the little poem called "The Retaliation." Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; II is pencil was striking, resisiless, and grand, His manners were gentle, complying, and bland....
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 17

1846 - 316 pages
...permit him to come. The lines have a melancholy interest, from being the last which the authoi wrote. " Here Reynolds Is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiher or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle,...
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The South Devon literary chronicle

1847 - 296 pages
...him to come. The lines have a melancholy interest, from being the last which the author wrote : — 'Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind,...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...
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The Pageant of English Poetry: Being 1150 Poems and Extracts by 300 Authors

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 642 pages
...fond of the right to pursue the expedient. O. GOLDSMITH (Retaliation). 397. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS HEBE 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,...
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