 | 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 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 346 strani
...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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 strani
...most eivilly 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. ARMSTRONG— AD 1709-79. THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH. DAUGHTER of Pœon, queen of every joy, II ygeia... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 strani
...blunts the sting of those lines in Retaliation — . "When you talked of your Raphaels, Corregpos, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff."...sarcastic Hogarth, were no less delighted with the worka of one who had all the grace and beauty which long acquaintance with foreign pictures had taught... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 strani
...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. ... BISHOP PERCY. DR. THOMAS PBRCY (1729-1811), afterwards bishop of... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 strani
...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." To understand the last line it should be observed that Sir Joshua was so deaf, as to be obliged to... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 strani
...a circumstance which blunts the sting of those lines in Retaliation — . "When you talked of your Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff*, He shifted his trumpet,...of one who had all the grace and beauty which long acquaintance with foreign pictures had taught them to admire. It was pleasing to national pride to... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 strani
...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 lines, says Malone, that the author wrote. He had written half a line more of this... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1837 - 316 strani
...you talked of your Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted bis trumpet, and only took snufl-." The influence of an artist of commanding skill now...of one who had all the grace and beauty which long acquaintance with foreign pictures had taught them to admire. It was pleasing to national pride to... | |
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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,... 
