 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,...  The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ... - Seite 104von Oliver Goldsmith - 1791Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Florence Heywood - 1923 - 424 Seiten
...illustrate the pedantic spirit of the age : — His pencil was striking, resistless and grand, Mis manners were gentle, complying and bland, Still born...pencil our faces, his manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing. When... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1924 - 552 Seiten
...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...part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart." Death. The lines on Reynolds were the last ever written by Goldsmith. He died on April 4,17 74, at... | |
 | 1925 - 784 Seiten
...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...pencil our faces, his manners our heart ; To coxcombs averse, yet most skillfully steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing;... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 224 Seiten
...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...pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 Seiten
...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, complying and...pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing : When... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - 1926 - 544 Seiten
...critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies : His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His manners were gentle, complying and...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 Seiten
...critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies: His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His manners were gentle, complying and...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,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, 1T $1 t -ym 4 E V3 T Q 5 0 QXf E { h* Kh ΪF Zp_ y 1 Sp 6X]?$ /f j ! ޱlc k Y 141 His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 Seiten
...His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; 140 ig as averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing: When... | |
 | Muriel Masefield - 1927 - 196 Seiten
...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... | |
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