| Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - Liczba stron: 360
...fupplies the fulleft maturity of our vigour. " The mind is but a barren foil ; is a foil foon ,exhaufted, and will produce no crop, or only one, UNLESS IT BE CONTINUALLY FERTILIZED ANO INRICH'D WITH FOREIGN MATTER. " When we have had continually before us the great works of art to... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - Liczba stron: 440
...«^.~.-— •.i-—*»».„, ^a. ...r-,*rn— ..«i. ~*^— r,-, v, -,.i_ ,„ ™.^^n „.«„,„. is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop. or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. When we have had continually before us the great works of Art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - Liczba stron: 476
...which supplies 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...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. When we have had continually before us the great works of Art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - Liczba stron: 430
...substance which supplies 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 - Liczba stron: 220
...others to our own native powers, in his usual striking and masterly manner. " The mind," says he, " is a barren soil, is a soil soon exhausted, and will...if this were true, it would perhaps be as well that an author should give us the ideas of far better writers, mixed and assimilated with the matter in... | |
| James Northcote - 1819 - Liczba stron: 382
...the thoughts of 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...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter." — Such were a few of the most striking general truths in this discourse ; but the fact [is, that... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - Liczba stron: 610
...which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour. I The mind is but a barren soil; a soil V which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. When we have had continually before us the great works of Art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - Liczba stron: 332
...substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigor. The mind is but a barren soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. When we have had continually before us the great works of art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - Liczba stron: 332
...substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigor. / The mind is but a barren soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. / When we have had continually before us the ! great works of art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - Liczba stron: 354
...Every nation drives a considerable trade in MCCCXLV. The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter — Sir J. Reynolds. MCCCXLVI. - As a horse Is still a horse, for all his golden trappings, So your... | |
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