 | Vicesimus Knox - Education - 1785 - 360 pages
...fupplies the fulleft maturity of our vigour. " The mind is but a barren foil ; is a foil foon ,exhaufted, and will produce no crop, or only one, UNLESS IT BE CONTINUALLY FERTILIZED ANO INRICH'D WITH FOREIGN MATTER. " When we have had continually before us the great works of art to... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...«^.~.-— •.i-—*»».„, ^a. ...r-,*rn— ..«i. ~*^— r,-, v, -,.i_ ,„ ™.^^n „.«„,„. is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop. or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. When we have had continually before us the great works of Art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1809 - 344 pages
...others, to our own native powers, in his usual striking and masterly manner. " The mind," says he, " a barren soil — is a soil " soon exhausted, and...if this were true, it would perhaps be as well that author should give us the ideas of still better writers, mixed and assimilated with the matter in his... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour. The mind is but a barren soil ; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will, produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. When we have had continually before us the great works of Art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 430 pages
...substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour. The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilize^ and enriched with foreign matter. / When we have had continually before us the great works... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigour. I The mind is but a barren soil; a soil V which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. When we have had continually before us the great works of Art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 382 pages
...the thoughts of others, we learn to think." — — " The mind is but a barren soil ; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter." — Such were a few of the most striking general truths in this discourse ; but the fact [is, that... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1824 - 332 pages
...substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigor. / The mind is but a barren soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. / When we have had continually before us the ! great works of art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 pages
...substance which supplies the fullest maturity of our vigor. The mind is but a barren soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. When we have had continually before us the great works of art to impregnate our minds with kindred... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Every nation drives a considerable trade in MCCCXLV. The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only...continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter — Sir J. Reynolds. MCCCXLVI. - As a horse Is still a horse, for all his golden trappings, So your... | |
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The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. 
