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... Annual Register of World Events - Page 2011801Full view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...was his failing? come tell it, and burn ye*, He was, could he help it ? a fpecial attorney. Here (g) Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has...behind ; His pencil was ftriking, refiftlefs and grand, Hitmannen were gentle, complying and bland; \ Still born to improve us In every part, .* His pencil... | |
| History - 1778 - 630 pages
...worft foe can't accufe him of that. Perhaps he confided in men as they go^ And io was too fooliihly honeft ; ah no ! Then what was his failing ? come...not left a wifer or better behind ; His pencil was Unking, reiiitlefs and grand, His manners were gentle, complying and bland ; Still born to improve... | |
| English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...worft foe can't accufe him of that : Perhaps he confided in men as they go, And fo was too foohiiily honeft ? ah no ! Then what was his failing ? come...wifer, or better behind ; His pencil was ftriking, refidlefs and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying and bland; Still born to improve us in every... | |
| English poetry - 1785 - 320 pages
...Andfo was too foolilhly honeft ? ;ih no ! Then what was his failing ? come tell it, and burn ye,-— Ht was, could he help it ? a fpecial attorney. Here }...not left a wifer, or better behind ; His pencil was linking, rcfiftlefs and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying and bland ; •:i:il born to improve... | |
| 1785 - 304 pages
...his failing ? come tell it, and burn ye,' — He was, could he help it ? a fpecial attorney. Here J Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has...wifer, or better behind ; His pencil was ftriking, rcfiftlefs and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying and bland ; Still born to improve us in every... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...what was his failing I come tell it, and burn . He was, could he help it? a fpecial attorney. Here f Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has...not left a wifer or better behind ; His pencil was Unking, refiftlefs and grand; His manners were gentle, complying and bland ; Still born to improve... | |
| 1792 - 530 pages
...recollection. — Gold-: fmitVs character of him, in his witty poem, ' Retaliation,' was never diiputed : Here Reynolds is laid *, and, to tell you my mind,...ftriking, refiftlefs, and grand; His manners were gentle, compliant, and bland : i (Ыч Poem, (lie author was fuppof-d to write the epitaphs of fome of his... | |
| James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 272 pages
...can't accufe him of that. Perhaps he confided in men as they go, And fo was too foolifhly honcft ? — Ah. no ! Then what was his failing? come tell it,...not left a wifer or better behind ; His pencil was finking, refifUefs, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying,., and bland ; Still born to improve... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1794 - 124 pages
...come tell it, and burn ye— •He was — could he help it — a fpecial attorney. Here Reynolds(f) is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wifer or better behindi His pencil was ftriking, refiftlefs, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...come rcll it.and burn ye. ¿I с was, could he help it ? a Ipecial attorney. Here Reynolds is laid j and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wifer or belter behind ; His pencil was ftriking, rtfiftlcis, and strand ; His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
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