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"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Work title:
"A Discourse Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy [Discourses on Art]"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Plant"
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Date: December 10, 1774; 1775
"The mind is but a barren soil; is a soil soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilised and enriched with foreign matter."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)
Date: December 10, 1790; 1791
"It is an absurdity therefore to suppose we are born with this taste, though we are with the seeds of it, which by the heat and kindly influence of his genius, may be ripened in us."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)