 Still born to improve us in every part, His 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, Correggios, and stuff,...  Works of Washington Irving: Goldsmith - Page 255by Washington Irving - 1870Full view - About this book
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803 - 716 pages
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff." PLYMPTOH * Sir Joshui was so deaf, ai to be obliged to use an ear-trumpet in company. PLYMPTON ST.... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1803 - 662 pages
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snufif." PLYMPTOK * Sir Joshua was 10 deaf, u to be obliged to use an en: trumpet in company. PLYMPTON... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1810 - 524 pages
...every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart; To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steejing, When they judged without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raffaelles, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff. and... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 346 pages
...most civilly steering, When they judg'd without skill, he was still hard of hearing ; When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet*, and only took snuff." Plympton St. Mary — adjoins the former parish, and contains 245 houses, and about 1600 inhabitants.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...every part, His 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 fourth editivn... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 pages
...part, His 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 Kaffaelles, Corregios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet,* and only took snuff!" In the poetical epistle... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...part, His 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, Corregins, and He shifted his f trumpet, and only took snutV. [stuff, POSTSCRIPT.* Here Wh'rtefoord... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...part, His 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 talk'd of their Raphaels, Coreggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet19, and only took snuff. is Sir... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...every part, His 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 talk'd of their Raphaels, Corregio's, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet ">, and only took snuff. POSTSCRIPT.... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...part, His 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 talk'd of their Raffaelles, Corregios,and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff!" Just... | |
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