 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 ... - Page 104by Oliver Goldsmith - 1791Full view - About this book
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, , * ' Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire 141 His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, t sees That shady city of palm trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in 141 His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When... | |
 | William Robert Roe - Deaf - 1917 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...another of his plays, " A Word to the 1 William Woodfall, the printer of " The Morning Chronicle." Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet more civilly steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing ;... | |
 | Irene Maguinness - Painters - 1920 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 654 pages
...knew when he pleased he could whistle them back; or the account of Reynolds' tendency to idealize: Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. The Deserted Village offers training of the best sort; the descriptive humor of the opening scene,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1921 - 626 pages
...mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and g-raad,j His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still...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... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Meiskr's Travels. Ch. XIV. (Ch. III. 128 of Carlyle's Ed.) 18 His pencil was striking, resistless, Cleopatra. DHYDEN — All for Love. Act II. Sc. 1. 7 GOLDSMITH — Retaliation. L. 139. 19 The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm ; The pregnant quarry... | |
 | Florence Heywood - Painting - 1923 - 424 pages
...style, adequately illustrate the pedantic spirit of the age :— " 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... | |
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