 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 Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ... - Page 104by Oliver Goldsmith - 1791Full view - About this book
 | Florence Heywood - Painting - 1923 - 424 pages
...illustrate the pedantic spirit of the age : — His pencil was striking, resistless and grand, Mis manners were gentle, complying and bland, Still born...pencil our faces, his manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing. When... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - Comedy - 1924 - 552 pages
...mind, He has left not a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand, H's manners were gentle, complying, and bland: Still born...part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart." Death. The lines on Reynolds were the last ever written by Goldsmith. He died on April 4,17 74, at... | |
 | Deaf - 1925 - 784 pages
...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...pencil our faces, his manners our heart ; To coxcombs averse, yet most skillfully steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing;... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - English poetry - 1926 - 224 pages
...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...pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...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...pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing : When... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - Painters - 1926 - 544 pages
...critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies : His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His manners were gentle, complying and...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,... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - Painters - 1926 - 544 pages
...critically of any of his contemporaries. And Goldsmith testifies: His pencil was striking, resistless and grand. His manners were gentle, complying and...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,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, 1T $1 t -ym 4 E V3 T Q 5 0 QXf E { h* Kh ΪF Zp_ y 1 Sp 6X]?$ /f j ! ޱlc k Y 141 His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; 140 ig as averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing: When... | |
 | Muriel Masefield - ARBLAY, FRANCES BURNEY1752-1840 - 1927 - 196 pages
...death-in-life at Court. Goldsmith voices the affectionate faith all his friends had in him in the lines: "Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart" Thackeray, after his studies in the society of the last half of the eighteenth century, recorded his... | |
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