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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... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 509
1892
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...it, and barn ye He was, could he help it? a special attorney. Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell yon my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striding, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve...
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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 Saturday Magazine, Volumes 16-17

1840 - 534 pages
...there alluded to, was brought on by a dangerous illness, which he suffered at Rome. To coxcombs avcrso, yet most civilly steering ; When they judged 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....
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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