 | William Cook - 1806 - Страниц: 244
...so early displayed, and circulated through the whole course of his life. " Genius (says Dr. Johnson) is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction:" and we are told by the same author, " that the late Sir Joshua Reynolds hod the first fondness for... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - Страниц: 296
...the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents, which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten,...large general powers, accidentally determined to some particulardirection. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - Страниц: 292
...the charms of verse, he became, as ne relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents, which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten,...large general powers, accidentally determined to some particulardirection. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - Страниц: 516
...poet. Such are the accidents, which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, pro" duce that particular designation of mind and propensity...called genius. The true genius is a mind of large genc" ral powers, accidentally determined to some particular " direction." 'Whether the circumstances... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - Страниц: 296
...the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents, which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten,...designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science of employment, which is commonly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Страниц: 452
...the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten,...accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1810 - Страниц: 570
...relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents, which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometime* forgotten, produce that particular designation of...of large general powers, accidentally determined to Rome particular direction." This opinion is then applied by Mr. Edgeworth to the immediate subject... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 564
...the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents, which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten,...science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The-true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1810 - Страниц: 262
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Страниц: 420
...the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten,...accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
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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 general powers, accidentally... 
