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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... "
Biographical sketch. Poetical extracts. Miscellaneous essays. From The bee ... - Page 216
by Washington Irving - 1858
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 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...without skill he was still hard of hearing : When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregins, and He shifted his f trumpet, and only took snutV. [stuff, POSTSCRIPT.*...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...his failing ? come, tell it, and burn 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 ; [and stuff', When they talk'd of their Raphaels,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...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 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,...
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A collection of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions, ancient and modern, by ...

Collection - 1821 - 336 pages
...ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. ar,l e. J Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mimi. He has left not a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking,...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff. hearing;...
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A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern ...

Epitaphs - 1822 - 382 pages
...sincere. ON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLPS. Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind, He has left not a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking,...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff. hearing...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 has not left...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...failing ! come tell it, and burn ye,— He was, could be help it ? a special attorney. Here Reynolds kindly spreads the flowery lawn: Is it for thee the...lark ascends and sings 1 Joy tunes his voice, joy judg'd without skill he was still hard of hearing: When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios and...
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The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...of Sir Joshua is well known, it cannot properly be omitted in the present memoir. -- Here Reynolds is laid ; and 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,...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...failing? come tell it, and burn ye,— He was, could be help it ? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left...grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland Mill born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, bis manners our heart : To coxcomts averse,...
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The Circulator of useful knowledge, amusement, literature, science and ...

1825 - 424 pages
...following lines, by Goldsmith, in the Retaliation, are briefly, yet strongly, expressive : Here Reynolds is laid; and to tell you my mind, He has not left...striking, resistless, and grand. His manners were gentle.complying, and bland. Still born to improve us in every part ; His pencil our faces, — his...
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