| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1803 - 662 pages
...friend Goldsmith, are too characteristic to be omitted. " Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind....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
...ye:.... He was.. ..could he help it?....a special attorney. > Here Reynoldsf is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind...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... | |
| Select collection - 1806 - 262 pages
...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 born to inform us in every part ; His pencil our faces, — his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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 a wiser or better behind...was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners was gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...Here Keyiiolds U laid : and to tell you ray mind, !i He »as not left a wivrr or better behind : | Hi> pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; ' His manners were gentle, complying, and i bland ; |j Still honi to iinjn ove us in every part, H is pencil our I'. ices, his manners our heart... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...ye, — Me was, could he help it ? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you iny mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His...gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve iia in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civally... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...what was his failing? come tell it, and harn ye.— He was, conld he help it ? a special attorney. Here Reynolds! is laid, and, to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or hetter hehind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...epitaph during sir Joshua's life-time, in the following lines: Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind....striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, comply ing, and blond. Still born to improve us in every part: Hie pencil our faces, his manners our... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; Hismanners were gen tie, complying, and bland ; Still borrf'to improve us in every part, His pencil... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...failing ? come tell it, and burn ye. He was, could he help it? a special attorney. Here Reynolds* u laid, and, to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or hetter hehind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
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