...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,...

...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,...

...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 they talk'd of their Raphaels, Coreggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,1 and only took snuff. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1 Sir Joshua...

...And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above. Retaliation, 1774 302 Sir Joshua Reynolds 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...

...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...

...failing? come tell it, and burn ye! 135 He was, could he help it? — a special attorney. Here Reynolds wig that flowed behind, A hat not much the worse fo better or wiser behind: His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying,...

...trumpet," &c. ;— less often, or at least less attentively, the preceding ones, far more important — " Still born to improve us in every part — His pencil our faces, his manners our heart; " and never, the most characteristic touch of all, near the beginning : — " Our dean shall be venison,...

...tongue of the courtier to secure his success. He had a happy mixture of wisdom and gentleness — " Still born to improve us in every part ; His pencil our faces, his manners our heart." Where Reynolds fell into the unhappy classic vein of his time, it is impossible to relish many of his...

...friends in the form of epitaphs to be placed on their tombs— with the quotation — " Here Beynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left...coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing ; When they talked of their Baffaelle's, Corregio's,...

...one of Charlemagne's paladins. Reynolds (Sir Joshua), is thus described by Goldsmith : Here Reynolds is laid ; and, to tell you my mind, He has not left...striking, resistless and grand ; His manners were gentle,complying and bland . . . To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without...