 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 476 pages
...intellects, are prepared far the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 pages
...intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 pages
...intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what be has before often repeated.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...are prepared fbrthedij. b»l covery and selection of all that is great and noble in "•"! nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what be haï before often repeated."... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think. " The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and repeat what he has before often repeated."... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 pages
...intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.... | |
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The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock : he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what... 
