 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,...  The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal ... - Page lby Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Robert Macnish - 1834 - 236 pages
...on the subject. Goldsmith describes this matter well in his account of Sir Joshua Reynolds : — " To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering : When...without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff." 3pfinri«m... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...seen that celebrated poem, yet still his delineation of Sir Joshua is too accurate to be omitted. ' Here Reynolds is laid ; and to tell you my mind, He...without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.'" These... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland : Still bom I repeat it, was too short; you should have given...intended to introduce the hero of the poem as lying in Raphaels, Corrcgios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT. After Ihe... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...complying, and bland : Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners owr heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering,...still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, 1 and only took snuff. ON DR GOLDSMITH'S CHARACTERISTICAL... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...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...still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet *, and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT. After the... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 pages
...CONVIVIAL EPITAPH. HERE Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He's not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and...without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregio, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. Goldsmith.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand j His manners were gentle, complying, and bland: Still...still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his ' trumpet, and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT AFTER the... | |
 | 1840 - 274 pages
...of Sir Joshua, there alluded to, was brought on. by a dangerous illness, which he suffered at Rome. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering ; "When...without skill, he was still hard of hearing : When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. The reader... | |
 | 1840 - 272 pages
...there alluded to, was brought on by a dangerous illness, which he suffered at Rome. To coxcomb. 1 ) averse, yet most civilly steering; "When they judged...without skill, he was still hard of hearing: When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, llo shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. The reader... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He ha« not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and...still hard of hearing : When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet ", and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT. After the... | |
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