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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 poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 53
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 254 pages
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The British Satirist: Comprising the Best Satires of the Most Celebrated ...

1831 - 790 pages
...Then what was his failing? come tell it, and burn ye He was, could he help it 1 a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or belter behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; Hia manners \vere gentle, complying,...
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The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...though the character was left unfinished, by Goldsmith's death : — in 1753 or 1754, and produced a " Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind,...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregios,...
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The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information

William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...from Italy in 1753 or 1754, and produced a " Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind, lie has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering; When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Uaphnels, Corregios,...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 1

Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...melancholy interest, from being the last which the author wrote. " Here Reynolds la laid, and, to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind...to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, bis manners our heart." - That he was an improver of human faces no one could be more conscious than...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 2

Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...;,, Here Reynolds i- laid, and, to tell yon ray mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind 1 Hit pencil was striking, resistless, and grand, His manners...gentle, complying, and bland : Still born to improve ns In every part, His pencil oar faces, bis manners oar heart : . To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly...
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The literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds. To which is prefixed a ..., Volume 1

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 has not left a better, or wiser behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand, His manners were gentle,...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...4 Roscius was the greatest comic actor of ancicr.l Rome. E Ben Jonson and the like Here Reynolds 1 through? bora to improve us in every part, 141 His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse,...
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Peeps Into the Deaf World

William Robert Roe - 1917 - 446 pages
...happiest and most cheerful of men. After his death, the poet Goldsmith wrote the following lines : — " 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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Johnson & Goldsmith & Their Poetry

William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...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...grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; 1 Hugh Kelly, a successful miter of sentimental comedies. Ganick gave him his first lift into fame...
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English Poets of the Eighteenth Century

Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 pages
...Old Shakespeare receive him with 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 better or wiser behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying,...
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