| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1778 - 346 σελίδες
...youth only, we fhould^ tothe laft moment of our lives, continue * a fettled C 2» a fettled intercourfe with all the true examples of grandeur, Their inventions...exhaufted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unlefs it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. WHEN we have had continually... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 σελίδες
...discipline of our youth only, we should, to the last moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Their inventions are not only the food of our infancy, but the substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour. The mind is but a barren soil ; a soil... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 σελίδες
...discipline of our youth only, we should, to the last moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Their inventions are not only the food of our infancy, 'but the substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour. The mind is but a barren soil ; a soil... | |
| 1809 - 344 σελίδες
...striking and masterly manner. " The mind," says he, " a barren soil — is a soil " soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or " only one, unless it be continually fertilized, and " enriched with foreign matter." Yet it has been objected, that study is a great enemy to originality;... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 430 σελίδες
...the fullest maturity of our vigour. The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilize^ and enriched with foreign matter. / When we have had continually before us the great works... | |
| Hannah More - 1810 - 220 σελίδες
...usual striking and masterly manner. " The mind," says he, " is a barren soil, is a soil soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized, and enriched with foreign matter/' Yet it has been objected, that study is a great enemy to originality:... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 σελίδες
...discipline of our youth only, we should, to the last moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Their inventions are not only the food of our infancy, but the substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour. ally fertilized and enriched with foreign... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 σελίδες
...discipline of our youth only, we should, to the last moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Their inventions are not only the food of our infancy, but the substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour. I The mind is but a barren soil; a soil... | |
| James Northcote - 1819 - 382 σελίδες
...others, we learn to think." — — " The mind is but a barren soil ; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter." — Such were a few of the most striking general truths in this... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 σελίδες
...discipline of our youth only, we should, to the last moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Their inventions are not only the food of our infancy, but the substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigor. The mind is but a barren soil which is... | |
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