 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1778 - 346 pages
...and confolidate thofe ideas of excellence which lay in their birth feeble, ill-fhaped, and confufed, but which are finished and put in order by the authority and practice of thofe, whole works may be faid to have been confecrated by having ftood the teft of ages, THE mind,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 440 pages
...it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel, and... | |
 | Henry Kett - Best books - 1803 - 468 pages
...confolidate thofe ideas of excellence, which lay in their birth feeBle, ill-maped, and confiifed ; but which are finished and put in order by the authority and practice of thofe, whofe works may be laid to have been confecrated by having flood the tell of ages ', " 1 Reynolds's... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1805 - 340 pages
...will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence, which lay in their birth feeble, ill-shaped. and confused ; but which are finished and put in order...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages." Reynolds's Discourses. The tales of Ovid delight the imagination of boys, at a time when they peruse... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence, which lay in their birth feeble, ill-shaped, and confused ; but which are finished and put in order...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages." Reynolds-s Discourses. The tales of Ovid delight the imagination of boys, at a time when they peruse... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1809 - 476 pages
...it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel, and... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 902 pages
...will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in their birth feeble, ill-shaped, and confused ; but which are finished, and put in...study of nature, it is not to be understood that we advise any endeavour to copy the exact peculiar colour and complexion of another man's mind ; the success... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 928 pages
...consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in their birth feeble, ill-shaped, and confused { bat which are finished, and put in order, by the authority...study of nature, it is not to be understood that we advise Any endeavour to copy the exact peculiar colour and complexion of another man's mind ; the success... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embry0, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel, and... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1819 - 610 pages
...it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order...been consecrated by having stood the test of ages. The mind, or genius, has been compared to a spark of fire, which is smothered by a heap of fuel, and... | |
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... intellect, or from the confused manner in which those collections have been laid up in his mind. The addition of other men's judgment is so far from weakening our own, as is the opinion of many, that it will fashion and consolidate those ideas of... 
