 | John Adams - 1803 - 486 pages
...painted hiftorical fubjefcls in a ftyle of uncommon excellence. Dr. Goldfmith fays of him, " He was born to improve us in every part, " His pencil our faces — his manners our heart." He was the firft promoter of the literary club, of which Johnfon, Burke, and other great men were members.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...special attorney. > Here Reynoldsf 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; * Vide pige 74. f Ibid. Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...special attorney. 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...To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios,... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1805 - 470 pages
...IT.lnd, He has not left a wiser nr better behindi Hie pencil was striking, resistless, and grand i His manners were gentle, complying. and bland. Still...His pencil our faces,— his manners, our heart." Sir Joshua died Feb. 93, 1792. RHAbES, a celebrated physician of the loth century, the Galen of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...special attorney. • 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...To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still bard of bearing : When they talk'd of theirRaphaels.Corregios... | |
 | Select collection - 1806 - 262 pages
...REYNOLDS. Here Reynolds is laid ; and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : Hie pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland, Still born to inform us in every part ; His pencil our faces, — his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet... | |
 | Edward Edwards, Horace Walpole - 1808 - 394 pages
...behind ! His pencil was ftriking, refiftleis, and grand, His manners were gentle, complying, and blaad. Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart; To coxcombs averfe, yet moft civilv fleering; r When they judg'd without fkill, he was ftill hard of hearing; When... | |
 | Edward Edwards, Horace Walpole - 1808 - 396 pages
...pencil was ftriking, refiftlefs, and grand, His manners were gentle, complying, and bland. Still boi n to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart; To coxcombs averfe, yet moft civilly fteering; When they judg'd without /kill, he was ftill hard of hearing; When... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 430 pages
...to posterity " 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...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,— " When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; " When they talk'd of their Raffaelles, Correggios,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 pages
...defect of hearing: 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...manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steejing, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their... | |
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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... 
