 ... 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 manners our heart. To coxcombs averse,...  Willis's Current notes - Page 77by Willis's Current notes - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...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 they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, 1 and only took snuff. POSTCRIPT. [After the... | |
 | Donald Macintosh - 1819 - 250 pages
...head."—Kelly's Scott. Prov. > " To coxcombs averse, 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." F2 Goldsmith. '267. Chaidh... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 pages
...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 talked of their Kaffaelles, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff!" In the poetical epistle... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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 talked of their Raphaels, Corregios, and He shifted his 1 trumpet, and only took snuff, [stuff, POSTSCRIPT.* Here Wh'rtefoord... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...our faces, his manners pur heart. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering ; When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing: When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff ; He shifted his trumpet,* and only took sauft. By flattery unspoiled.... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...illness, which he suffered at Rome. To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering ; V " > •, they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing: When they talked of thetr Raphaels, Corregios, and stuff, Ho shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. The reader will... | |
 | 1840 - 274 pages
...illness, which he suffered at Rome. To coxcombs averse, 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. The reader will gain some... | |
 | Robert Macnish - 1834 - 236 pages
...account of Sir Joshua Reynolds : — " To coxcombs averse, 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." 3pfinri«m ©ne $untirrti... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...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 talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.'" These were the last... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 pages
...complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering ; When...still hard of hearing : When they talked of their Raphaels, Corrcgioa, and stuif, He shifted his trumpetf, and only took snuif. * Vide page 60. t Sir... | |
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