 I am persuaded, that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dry den, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued practising his profession to the very last, whose latter works are not as replete with the fire of imagination, as...  The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds - Seite 101von Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 Seiten
...his latter life. But I am persuaded, that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dryden, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued...those which were produced in his more youthful days." * After all, however, it cannot be denied, that the differences among individuals, in the natural history... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 Seiten
...his latter life. But I am persuaded, that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dryden, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued...poets writing from the dictates of a little winged boy or genius, that this same genius did really inform him in a whisper what he was to write ; and that... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 Seiten
...his latter life. But I am persuaded, that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dryden, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued...conclude, that because painters sometimes represent a poet writing from the dictates of a 8 If anything is to be gathered from this passage, we must look... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1853 - 388 Seiten
...his latter life. But I am persuaded, that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dryden, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued...poets writing from the dictates of a little winged boy or genius, that this same genius did really inform him in a whisper what he was to write ; and that... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 Seiten
...his latter life. But I am persuaded, that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dryden, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued...as those which were produced in his more youthful days."1 After all, however, it cannot be denied, that the differences among individuals, in the natural... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Allan Cunningham - 1860 - 398 Seiten
...his latter life. But I am persuaded, that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dryden, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued...poets writing from the dictates of a little winged boy or genius, that this same genius did really inform him in a whisper what he was to write ; and that... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 504 Seiten
...his latter life. But I am persuaded, that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dryden, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued...those which were produced in his more youthful days." 1 After all, however, it cannot be denied, that the differences among individuals, in the natural history... | |
 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1882 - 108 Seiten
...in his latter life. But I am persuaded that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dryden, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued...which were produced in his more youthful days.— SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. XV. TF the mind is bent towards God with a strong purpose, whatever bitter betides... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 Seiten
...in his latter life. But I am persuaded that scarce a poet is to be found, from Homer down to Dryden, who preserved a sound mind in a sound body, and continued...poets writing from the dictates of a little winged boy or , . genius, that thia same genius did really inform him in a whisper what he was to write ; and... | |
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