 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...  The Discourses - Side 81av Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 283 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1848 - 398 sider
...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,...imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himself. — Sir Joshua Reynolds. NORMAL SCHOOLS. — Those seminaries for training Masters, are an invaluable... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 sider
...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 he has before " repeated.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 sider
...greatest natural genius can not subsist on its own stock : he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced from mere barrenness...imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will never be difficult to guess what kind... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 sider
...greatest natural genius can not subsist on its own stock : he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced from mere barrenness...imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will never be difficult to guess what kind... | |
 | Thomas Wright, Robert Harding Evans - 1851 - 524 sider
...Joshua Reynolds, " cannot subsist on its own stock ; he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced from mere barrenness...of all imitations ; he will be obliged to imitate himselfj and to repeat what he has before repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 sider
...greatest natural genius can not subsist on its own stock : he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness,...himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will never be difficult to guess what kind of work... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 sider
...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...imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will never be difficult to guess what kind... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1854 - 472 sider
...but his own, will be soon reduced ' from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imita' tions ; — he will be obliged to imitate himself, and ' to repeat what he has before repeated. When we ' know the subject designed by such men, it will ' never be difficult to guess what... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 502 sider
...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...imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before repeated. When we know the subject designed by such men, it will never be difficult to guess what kind... | |
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