It is indisputably evident that a great part of every man's life must be employed in collecting materials for the exercise of genius. Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered... The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal - Seite 180herausgegeben von - 1844Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 458 Seiten
...only remains to direct the view to distant excellence, and to show the readiest path that leads to it. It is indisputably evident that a great part of every...of genius. Invention, strictly speaking, is little mure than a lew combination of those images which have icon previously gathered and deposited in the... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy with madness. — Charron. INVENTION. — It is indisputably evident that a great part of every...of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory : nothing can be made of nothing : he who has laid up no materials, can... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 Seiten
...shall not anticipate those precepts, which it is his business to give, and your duty to understand. It is indisputably evident that a great part of every...of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing : he who has laid up no materials can produce... | |
| Claude Marcel - 1853 - 458 Seiten
...Joshua Eeynolds's observation in reference to painting equally applies to composition in writing. " Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than...of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory : nothing can come of nothing ; he who has laid up no material can produce... | |
| John Timbs - 1856 - 374 Seiten
...nettles live. That none for them can, when they perish, grieve. Waller. — From the French. XC1V.&L. . It is indisputably evident that a great part of every...those images which \ have been previously gathered and deposited in the memor^ nothmg can be made of nothing : he who has laid / \ up no materials, can... | |
| 1856 - 372 Seiten
...nettles live, That none for them can, when they perish, grieve. Waller. — From the French. XCIV. It is indisputably evident that a great part of every...of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory : nothmg can be made of nothing : he who has laid up no materials, can... | |
| 448 Seiten
...presented to his view during the constant changes they undergo. Sir Joshua Reynolds observes that, "It is indisputably evident that a great part of every...of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing : he who has laid up no materials can produce... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 394 Seiten
...shall not anticipate those precepts, which it is his business to give, and your duty to understand. It is indisputably evident that a great part of every...of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing : he who has laid up no materials can produce... | |
| George Barnard - 1861 - 386 Seiten
...he may supply himself with a store of thought for future use. Sir Joshua Eeynolds observes, that " it is indisputably evident that a great part of every...of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory : nothing can come of nothing ; he who has laid up no materials, can produce... | |
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