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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 bom to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors - Page 232
by Allan Cunningham - 1832
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The Public School Speaker

Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above! Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was sti iking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland. 50 Still born to improve...
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Elements of English Grammar

George Pliny Brown, Charles De Garmo - 1900 - 268 pages
...On a green shady bank profuse of flowers, Pensive I sat. The cloud lay cradled near the setting sun. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland. 55. The Adverb. Thus far you have studied only that class of attributes which belong to object-ideas....
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Essentials of English Composition

Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - 1902 - 308 pages
...tranquillity. HOLMES. 6. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! 7. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand. His manners were gentle, complying, and bland. GOLDSMITH. 8. Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. — POPE. 9. Let every man be swift to hear,...
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Devon: The Shire of the Sea Kings ...

Great Western Railway (Great Britain) - 1906 - 276 pages
...and vivid verses of Goldsmith, commencing with the lines: " Here Reynolds 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." and ending " When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff', He shifted his trumpet and...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 362 pages
...special attorney. 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, and bland ; 140 Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs...
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The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography

Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 500 pages
...epitaphs to be placed on their tombs — with the quotation — 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 ; Hi; manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil...
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...Kellys above. ******* 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, and bland; MO Still born to improve us in every part, . His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs...
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 pages
...his Kellys above. 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, and bland; 140 Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs...
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English Poems: The restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pages
...and with love, 85 And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above. Here Reynolds 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; 90 Still born to improve us in every part— His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs...
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1785-1824

Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...sun. — PIOZZI, ^HESTER LYNCH, 1773? The Streatham Portraits, Autobiography, ed. Hayward, p. 254. t4y d bom to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse,...
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