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A Strange Erratum in all the Editions Of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ lectures Should be corrected by the young gentlemen And the Royal Academy’s directors. Instead of ‘Michael Angelo,’ Read ‘Rembrandt’; for it is fit To make mere common honesty In…
The Villain at the gallows tree, When he is doom’d to die, To assuage his misery In virtue’s praise does cry. So Reynolds when he came to die, To assuage his bitter woe, Thus aloud did howl and cry: ‘Michael…
Sir Joshua sent his own portrait to The birthplace of Michael Angelo, And in the hand of the simpering fool He put a dirty paper scroll, 5And on the paper, to be polite, Did ‘Sketches by Michael Angelo’ write. The…
The Angel that presided ‘oer my birth Said, “Little creature, form’d of Joy and Mirth, “Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.”
I am no Homer’s hero you all know; I profess not generosity to a foe. My generosity is to my friends, That for their friendship I may make amends. The generous to enemies promotes their ends, And becomes the enemy…
Fortune favours the brave, old proverbs say; But not with money; that is not the way. Turn back! turn back! you travel all in vain; Turn through the iron gate down Sneaking Lane.
For Fortune’s favours you your riches bring, But Fortune says she gave you no such thing. Why should you be ungrateful to your friends,— Sneaking and backbiting, and odds and ends?
Till you’re at last become the golden fool: I sport with fortune, merry, blithe and gay, Like to the lion sporting with his prey. Take you the hide and horns which you may wear, Mine is the flesh—the bones may…
By calling his the ornamental style; And yet his praise of Flaxman was the smartest, When he called him the ornamental artist. But sure such ornaments we well may spare As crooked limbs and lousy heads of hair.
He’s a blockhead who wants a proof of what he can’t perceive; And he’s a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.