 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 σελίδες
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 σελίδες
...essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity, unabated by difficulty, and a disfiosition eagerly directed to the object of its pursuit, will...similar to those which some call the result of natural fiowers." Johnson has touched on this topic in his Rambler, and, in the person of Imlach, we are instructed,... | |
 | Martin Archer Shee - 1809 - 442 σελίδες
...very captivating in Carlo Maratti, but this proceeded from a want which cannot be completely supplied, that is, want of strength of parts. In this certainly...education cannot make every man a man of genius : " A qnelque degre de perfection qu'on portal: 1'education, qu'on n'imagine cependant pas qu'on fit des... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 σελίδες
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
 | John Dougall - 1815 - 514 σελίδες
...nothing is to be obtained without it. I will venture to assert that assiduity unabated by difficulties, and a disposition eagerly directed to the object of...those which some call the result of natural powers." The young draughtsman therefore who refuses to acquire a competent knowledge of the principles of geometry,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 σελίδες
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 σελίδες
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 σελίδες
...to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulty and a disposition...those which some call the result of natural powers." — Vol. I. p. 44. The only tendency of the maxim here laid down seems to be to lure those students... | |
 | L. Murray - 1821 - 620 σελίδες
...the nature o'r essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulties, and a disposition eagerly directed to the object of...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint, or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
 | Alexander Jamleson - 1821 - 456 σελίδες
...the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert, that assiduity unabated by difficulties, and a disposition eagerly directed to the object of...those which some call the result of natural powers. Though a man cannot at all times, and in all places, paint or draw, yet the mind can prepare itself... | |
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Nothing is denied to well-directed labour: nothing is to be obtained without it. Not to enter into metaphysical discussions on the nature or essence of genius, I will venture to assert that assiduity unabated by difficulty, and a disposition eagerly directed... 
