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" It is vain for painters or poets to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing. "
Loudon's Architectural Magazine: And Journal of Improvement in Architecture ... - Page 307
edited by - 1834
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 13

1839 - 518 pages
...invention, and if he has not the power ol using them, it must be from a feebleness of intellect ;' and ' it is in vain to endeavour to invent -without materials on which the mind may work,' &c. Raffaelle, by the wonderful ability and power which he has shown in choosing subjects in which...
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The Penny Cyclopędia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 13

1839 - 518 pages
...invention, and if he has not the power of using them, it must bo from a feebleness of intellect ;' and ' it is in vain to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work,' Sic. Raffaeile, by the wonderful ability and power which he has shown in choosing subjects in which...
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The penny cyclopędia [ed. by G. Long]., Volume 13

Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 524 pages
...invention, and if he has not the power ol using thorn, it must be from a feebleness of intellect ;' and ' it is in vain to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work,' &c. Raftaelle, by the wonderful ability and power which he has shown in choosing subjects in which...
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Revolt of the Bees

John Minter Morgan - 1839 - 228 pages
...beautiful and sublime in nature. " It is in vain," says Sir Joshua Reynolds, "for painters or poets to endeavour to invent, without materials on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing." Homer is supposed to be possessed...
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Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science, and the ...

Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds, " at least what is generally so called, is chiefly the child of imitation ; for it is in vain to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing." (Discourse VI.) " A fine invention,"...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 538 pages
...invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think. It is in vain for painters or poets to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing. Homer is supposed to have been possessed...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the ..., Volume 1

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 474 pages
...invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think. It is in vain for painters or poets to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing. Homer is supposed to have been possessed...
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The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 318 pages
...will never be difficult to guess what kind of work is to be produced. It is vain for painters or poets to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing. Homer is supposed to be possessed...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - 516 pages
...invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think. It is in vain for painters or poets to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing. Homer is supposed to have been possessed...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 13-14

Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...unless it be continually fertilised and enriched with foreign matter It is vain for pocta and painters to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing. Homer is supposed to have possessed...
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