 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...  The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a ... - Seite 167von Sir Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason - 1852Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 Seiten
...When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; " When they talk'd of their RafFaelles, Correggios, and stuff, " He shifted his trumpet, and...only took snuff." ****** These were the last lines the author wrote. He had written half a line more of this character, when he was seized with the nervous... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803 - 716 Seiten
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff." PLYMPTOH * Sir Joshui was so deaf, ai to be obliged to use an ear-trumpet in company. PLYMPTON ST.... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1803 - 662 Seiten
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snufif." PLYMPTOK * Sir Joshua was 10 deaf, u to be obliged to use an en: trumpet in company. PLYMPTON... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 Seiten
...every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steejing, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raffaelles, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. and... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 346 Seiten
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet*, and only took snuff." Plympton St. Mary — adjoins the former parish, and contains 245 houses, and about 1600 inhabitants.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 Seiten
...gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart: To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,...hard of hearing; When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, 1 and only took snuff. POSTCRIPT. [After the fourth editivn... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 Seiten
...complying, and bland ; • Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,...was still hard of hearing; When they talked of their Kaffaelles, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff!" In the poetical epistle... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 Seiten
...skill, he was still hard of hearing ; " When they talk'd of their Raffaelles, Correggios, and stuff, u He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff." ****** These were the last lines the author wrote. He had written half a line more of this character, when he was seized with the nervous... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 Seiten
...gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,...hard of hearing : When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregins, and He shifted his f trumpet, and only took snutV. [stuff, POSTSCRIPT.* Here Wh'rtefoord... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 Seiten
...gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart: To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,...without skill he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregio's, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet'', and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT.... | |
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