| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 pages
...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 has not left...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 pages
...following lines, by Goldsmith, in the Retaliation, are briefly, yet strongly, expressive : Here Reynolds is laid; and to tell you my mind, He has not left...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 pages
...failing ? eome tell it, and bum ye,— He was, eould he help it? a speeial attorney. Here Reynolds ake 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... | |
| A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...of Sir Joshua, the justice of which is acknowledged by Buswell, and other writers : " Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind, He has not left...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...his failing? come tell it, and burn ye : He was, could he help it? a special attorney. Here Reynolds B / ) l 蟩< :oi dm] [d t X ̋ " n $'݄ t Ũ e;\ ... b) j lC < ,ڐ n - Ѩ%% ] Ģ $ W(ըH K G ᭔ ? i judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| 1831 - 790 pages
...his failing? come tell it, and burn ye He was, could he help it 1 a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or belter behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; Hia manners \vere gentle, complying,... | |
| William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...character was left unfinished, by Goldsmith's death : — in 1753 or 1754, and produced a " Here Reynolds se and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snnll." Sir Joshua was so remarkably deaf as to be... | |
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