 | Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 σελίδες
...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 - 420 σελίδες
...which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment,...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 σελίδες
..." 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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 662 σελίδες
...what originally bent his mind this way does not appear. It was a favourite notion of Johnson's, that ' the true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined -*L to some particular direction.' Such also was the opinion of Sir Joshua. ' It was ever his decided... | |
 | 1814 - 570 σελίδες
...inherent natural propensities and innate ideas ; and Dr. Johnson has oracularly pronounced, that " the true genius is a mind of large general powers,...accidentally determined to some particular direction."* Yet, as the faculties of the mind are not simple and uniform, but quite as various, as dissimilar,... | |
 | 1815 - 876 σελίδες
...which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment,...accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the grest painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | 1815 - 880 σελίδες
...which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment,...accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 σελίδες
...which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment,...accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his .art excited... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 σελίδες
...mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The trne genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, tbe great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. 
