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“There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.”

People Trying Believe Art Age Wish Middle Fancy Spells Middle Ages

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.”

Men Believe Done Running Can Do Common Support Clear He Man Industry Reader Genius Fancy Reasoning Schemes Hypothesis Systematic Explicit

Book:Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.”

Source: The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford

“Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.”

Believe Humanity Safe Corners Fancy Superstitions Refuge

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections