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 Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds - Seite lxxviiivon Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 Seiten
...come tell it, and burn ye:.... He was.. ..could he help it?....a special attorney. > Here Reynoldsf is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left...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... | |
| John Adams - 1803 - 486 Seiten
...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 - 1805 - 264 Seiten
...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...part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still hard of... | |
| Stephen Jones - 1805 - 470 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart: To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill he was still bard of... | |
| Select collection - 1806 - 262 Seiten
...drew him •on grey paper with black and red chalk heightened witti white. ON SIR JOSHUA 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... | |
| Edward Edwards, Horace Walpole - 1808 - 394 Seiten
...his elegant little Poem of RETALIATION, which, as far as it extends, is as juft as it is beautiful. " HERE REYNOLDS is laid, and to tell you my mind,. •» He has not left a better or wifer behind ! His pencil was ftriking, refiftleis, and grand, His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
| Edward Edwards, Horace Walpole - 1808 - 396 Seiten
...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... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 430 Seiten
...perhaps Horace's description of the amiable friend of the younger Scipio,—the mitis fapicntia Lseli, 53 may convey to posterity " Here Reynolds is laid, and,...part, " His pencil our faces, his manners our heart: " To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,— " When they judg'd without skill, he was still... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 Seiten
...Goldsmith, in his imaginary epitaph on Sir Joshua, has pleasantly alluded to hia defect of hearing: Here Reynolds is laid; and, to tell you my mind, He...part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steejing, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of... | |
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