 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...failing ? eome tell it, and bum ye,— He was, eould he help it? a speeial attorney. Here Reynolds ake a bit. So, when Cadenus eould not hide, He ehose to justify, his pride ; Cons peneil was striking, resistioss and grand ; His manners were gentle, eomplying and bland ; Still bom... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1828 - 606 pages
...the melody of good feeling and of good sense. How often are we forced to envy Sir Joshua Reynolds, " To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering-, When...judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing." At many a sermon should we not be delighted to " shift our trumpet" as he did ? At the theatres, indeed,... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...of Sir Joshua, the justice of which is acknowledged by Buswell, and other writers : " 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, Correggios,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above. . . . Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell yon t ? ' From better habitations spnrned, Reluctant dost thou rove ? pur heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...melancholy interest, from being the last which the author wrote. " Here Reynolds Is laid, and, to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind...Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil onr faces, hia manners our heart." That he was an improver of human faces no one could be more conscious... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...it, and barn ye He was, could he help it? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striding, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve... | |
 | Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...his failing? come tell it, and burn ye He was, could he help it 1 a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or belter behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; Hia manners \vere gentle, complying,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...character was left unfinished, by Goldsmith's death : — in 1753 or 1754, and produced a " Here Reynolds se judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...from Italy in 1753 or 1754, and produced a " Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind, lie has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Uaphnels, Corregios,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1832 - 324 pages
...melancholy interest, from being the last which the author wrote. " Here Reynolds la laid, and, to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind...to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, bis manners our heart." - That he was an improver of human faces no one could be more conscious than... | |
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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... 
