 | New York Public Library - 1914 - 616 pàgines
..."Retaliation," — in which he so aptly describes them, as if in epitaphs. Of the painter he wrote: 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,... | |
 | Dulwich Picture Gallery - 1914 - 416 pàgines
...Johnson called him " the most invulnerable man I know." Goldsmith's " epitaph " is well known : — Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has left not a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless and grand, His manners were... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1915 - 330 pàgines
...Reynolds. The merry Goldsmith composed a mock epitaph, before the death of Reynolds, in which he said, — Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a w1ser or better behind, His pencil was striking, resistless and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
 | 1916 - 792 pàgines
...hack-writers lived 4 Roscius was the greatest comic actor of ancient Rome. 6 Ben Jonson and the like ge excitement wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 pàgines
...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 wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pàgines
...Shakespeare receive him with praise and skill, ,121 with love, And Beaumonts and Bens 6 be his Kellys above. rs, daily, weekly, in my sight: And, for * my chance-acquaintance, wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners .were gentle, complying,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pàgines
...4 Roscius was the greatest comic actor of ancicr.l Rome. E Ben Jonson and the like Here Reynolds 1 through? wiser or better behind. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying,... | |
 | William Robert Roe - 1917 - 446 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pàgines
...can't accuse him of that. Perhaps he confided in men as they go, And so was too foolishly honest ? Ah no! Then 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 has not left a wiser or better... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 pàgines
...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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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... 
