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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... "
The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ... - Seite 118
von William Hone - 1832 - 856 Seiten
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Poems on Several Occasions: Written in the Eighteenth Century

Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 220 Seiten
...what was 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...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Coreggios,...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...lived 4 Roscius was the greatest comic actor of ancient Rome. 5 Ben Jonson and the like Here Reynolds1 141 His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When...
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Fifty Famous Painters

Henrietta Gerwig - 1926 - 544 Seiten
...never permitted himself to speak critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies : His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His...part His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. Toward the end of Sir Joshua's life, troubles began to gather on the horizon. He had a paralytic stroke,...
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Fifty Famous Painters

Henrietta Gerwig - 1926 - 544 Seiten
...never permitted himself to speak critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies: His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His...part His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. Toward the end of Sir Joshua's life, troubles began to gather on the horizon. He had a paralytic stroke,...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 Seiten
...and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above. Retaliation, 1774 302 Sir Joshua Reynolds 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 Story of Fanny Burney: Being an Introduction to the Diary & Letters of ...

Muriel Masefield - 1927 - 196 Seiten
...death-in-life at Court. Goldsmith voices the affectionate faith all his friends had in him in the lines: "Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart" Thackeray, after his studies in the society of the last half of the eighteenth century, recorded his...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 Seiten
...what was his failing? come tell it, and burn ye! 135 He was, could he help it? — a special attorney. at and wig; A wig that flowed behind, A hat not much the worse fo better or wiser behind: His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying,...
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Sesame & Lilies: The Two Paths, & The King of the Golden River

John Ruskin - 1928 - 316 Seiten
...trumpet," &c. ;— less often, or at least less attentively, the preceding ones, far more important — " Still born to improve us in every part — His pencil our faces, his manners our heart; " and never, the most characteristic touch of all, near the beginning : — " Our dean shall be venison,...
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The London Quarterly Review, Band 25

William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1866 - 556 Seiten
...tongue of the courtier to secure his success. He had a happy mixture of wisdom and gentleness — " Still born to improve us in every part ; His pencil our faces, his manners our heart." Where Reynolds fell into the unhappy classic vein of his time, it is impossible to relish many of his...
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The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Band 2

William Blake - 1893 - 456 Seiten
...friends in the form of epitaphs to be placed on their tombs— with the quotation — " Here Beynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When they talked of their Baffaelle's, Corregio's,...
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