Your search for
Politics of Author:
"Whig"
AND
Genre:
"Prose"
AND
Work title:
"Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy by the President [Discourses on Art]"
AND
Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
,
"Early Modern"
,
"Long Eighteenth Century"
AND
Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
returned 1 results(s) in 0.001 seconds
Date: 1778
"Ideas thus fixed by sensible objects, will be certain and definitive; and sinking deep into the mind, will not only be more just, but more lasting than those presented to you by precepts only: which will, always be fleeting, variable, and undetermined."
preview | full record— Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792)