 | English literature - 1815 - 1008 pages
...accustomed to think the thoughts of the noblest and brightest intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature." The student, however, in contemplating such works, must view them with an independent eye, in erder to... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...and " brightest intellects, are prepared for the discovery and " selection of all that is great.and noble in nature. The " greatest natural genius cannot...reduced from mere barrenness " to the poorest of all imitations;—he will be obliged to " imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before " repeated.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...accustomed to think the thoughts of the noblest and brightest intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius can not subsist on its own stock : he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 428 pages
...accustomed to think the thoughts of the noblest and brightest intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius can not subsist on its own stock : he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1854 - 472 pages
...accustomed to think the thoughts of the ' noblest and brightest intellects, are prepared for the ' discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature....subsist on its own stock: he who resolves never to ran' sack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced ' from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pages
...accustomed to think the thoughts of the noblest and brightest intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature....barrenness to the poorest of all imitations ; he will be obh'ged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before repeated. When we know the subject designed... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 pages
...accustomed to think the thoughts of the noblest and brightest intellects, are prepared for the discovery and selection of all that is great and noble in nature. The greatest natural genius can not subsist on its own stock : he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1866 - 204 pages
...EXERCISE CXLIII. NECESSITY OF STUDY. BOLINGBKOK. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on his own stock. He who resolves never to ransack any mind...reduced from mere barrenness to the poorest of all imitation—he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.—REYNOLDS.... | |
 | Edward Lacy Garbett - Architectural design - 1867 - 276 pages
...point Sir Joshua Reynolds observes (and the observations are equally applicable to every art) — " The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced from mere barrenness to the poorest of all imitation ; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.... | |
 | Edward Lacy Garbett - 1876 - 264 pages
...point Sir Joshua Reynolds observes (and the observations are equally applicable to every art) — " The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its...reduced from mere barrenness to the poorest of all imitation ; 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 soon be reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what... 
