 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pages
...Pope's person the inimitable beauties of his elaborate verse. Dr. Johnson informs us, that the late great painter of the present age, had the first fondness...art excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise. M. Vaucanson displayed an uncommon genius for Mechanics. His taste was first determined by this accident;... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large...art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise. By his mother's solicitation hr was admitted into Westminster-school, where he was soon di- ' stinguished.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commoilly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large...direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the presuutage, kad the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise. By... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally deter- . mined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present-... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 pages
...to the principles on which his critical decisions are founded.— Under Cowley, he defines genius, " a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction:" and wit, " a combination of dissimilar images; or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 638 pages
...passions, touched with sweeter truth, than in his portraits of Miss Price and the baby Jupiter?" — " Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present...excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise." Johnson's life of Cowley. " I know no man (says the same great writer, in another place) who has passed... | |
 | 1811 - 644 pages
...passions, touched with sweeter truth, than in his portraits of Miss Price and the baby Jupiter ?" — " Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present...excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise." Johnson's life of Cowley. " I know no man (says the same great writer, in another place) who has passed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particiilar direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - 572 pages
..." designation of mind and propensity for some " certain science or employment, which is com" monly called genius. The true genius is a mind " of large...accidentally determined " to some particular direction." Whether the circumstances which are likely to form the taste occur by chance, or result from design,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 652 pages
...just ; but, if it be true, as Johnson affirms, and this eminent philosopher seems to admit, that ' the true genius is a mind of large general powers...accidentally determined to some particular direction,' it must have been owing lo such accidental determination, that Dr Robertson appeared not eminent in... | |
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Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large... 
