 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1848 - 472 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1857 - 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1864 - 582 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...never be difficult to guess what kind of work is to be produced. It is vain for painters and poets to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work, and from which invention must originate. Nothing can come of nothing. WILLIAM COWPER.' 1. ON WRITING UPON... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1869 - 564 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... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1874 - 444 pages
...derogatory. a Hear Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his twelfth Discourse : ' 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 ' (vol. i. 389). ' I know there... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1874 - 456 pages
...derogatory. « Hear Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his twelfth Discourse : ' 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 ' (vol. i. 389). ' I know there... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...will never be dillicult 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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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. 
