 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1803 - 662 pages
...on this great artist by his friend Goldsmith, are too characteristic to be omitted. " Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind, He has not left...His manners were gentle, complying, and bland: Still bom to improve us in every part; His pencil, our faces ; his manners, our heart: To coxcombs averse,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 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 - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...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 has not left...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 - Biography - 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
...? 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 has not left...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 and... | |
 | Select collection - Epitaphs - 1806 - 262 pages
...•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 - Art, British - 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 - Art, British - 1808 - 396 pages
...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, refiftlefs, and grand, His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 430 pages
...friend of the younger Scipio,—the mitis fapicntia Lseli, 53 may convey to posterity " Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, " He has not left...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,... | |
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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... 
