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Date: December 10, 1776; 1777
"The general objection which is made to philosophy's introduction into the regions of taste, is, that it checks and restrains the flights of the imagination, and gives that timidity which an over carefulness not to err or act contrary to reason is likely to produce."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: December 10, 1776; 1777
"In the midst of the highest flights of fancy or imagination, reason ought to preside from first to last, though I admit her more powerful operation is upon reflexion."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: December 10, 1778; 1779
"Where all is novelty, the attention, the exercise of the mind is too violent."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
