 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1778 - 346 էջ
...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 - 1801 - 440 էջ
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...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 - 1803 - 468 էջ
...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 - 1805 - 340 էջ
...consolidate those ideas of excellence, which lay in their birth feeble, ill-shaped, and confused ; but which are finished and put in order by the authority...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 - 1805 - 340 էջ
...consolidate those ideas of excellence, which lay in their birth feeble, ill-shaped. and confused ; but which are finished and put in order by .the authority...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 - 1809 - 476 էջ
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...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... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 684 էջ
...fashion and consolidate these ideas of excellence which lay in their birth feeble and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...study of nature, it is not to be understood that we arc to endeavour to copy the exact colour and complexion of another man's mind : the success of such... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 660 էջ
...Cushion and consolidate these ideas of excellence which lay in their birth feeble and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority and practice of those whose works may be said to havo been consecrated, by having stood the test of ages. " When we speak of the habitual imitation... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 էջ
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embryo, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...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, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 էջ
...and consolidate those ideas of excellence which lay in embry0, feeble, ill-shaped, and confused, but which are finished and put in order by the authority...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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... 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 excellence which lay in... 
