 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 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...imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 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...imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by s uch men, it will... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 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...imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 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...imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will... | |
 | 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...imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what be has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 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...imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will... | |
 | 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...imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what be haï before often repeated." An examination of the earlier works of most of the great... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Artists - 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...imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will... | |
 | 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...imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the •subject designed by such men, it will... | |
 | Education - 1848 - 398 pages
...be not at hand, the children will never be endangered by his vote afterwards. — Mann. GENIUS. — The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself. — Sir Joshua Reynolds. NORMAL SCHOOLS. — Those seminaries for training Masters, are an invaluable... | |
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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... 
