 | 1865 - 496 σελίδες
...of the Philosophy of the Human Mind," by Dui/ald Stewart, Part II., Preliminary Observations. (3) " The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in some particular direction." — Dr. S. Johnson's " Life of Cowley." " Talent convinces — genius... | |
 | 1867 - 522 σελίδες
...which there is and must be something deficient. Dr. Johnson's definition (' Life of Cowley,') is this : "The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in some particular direction." Generally it is understood to be the perfection of human intelligence.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 526 σελίδες
...which there is and must be something deficient. Dr. Johnson's definition (' Life of Cowley,') is this : "The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in some particular direction." Generally it is understood to be the perfection of human intelligence.... | |
 | 1872 - 776 σελίδες
...CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE. No. XII.— FOOTE AND FARCE-WRITERS. ( OCTOR JOHNSON says of " Genius " that it is "a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction"; and he, as it were, incidentally confirms this definition by the fact that "Sir Joshua Reynolds had... | |
 | 1872 - 592 σελίδες
...this ? TRISTIB. [A similar definition occurs in Dr. Johnson'r/,i/> of Cateley : " The true genius Li a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."] WILLIAM SECOLL, 1557. — During the restoration at the church of South Leigh, about eight miles from... | |
 | J. W. Appleton - 1879 - 216 σελίδες
...definition of genius is very famous and often quoted, yet it is one with which we cannot agree. He says,* " The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in * " Lives of the Poets " (Cowley). some particular direction." But this definition does not recognize... | |
 | 1879 - 578 σελίδες
...1835, Tol. ip 35. "Hie own opinion on the subject has already been stated; and Johnson's notion, that 'true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particulttr direction,' appears to have suggested or confirmed it."— Ibid., p. 39. " There is one... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1882 - 620 σελίδες
...ardor and emulation." He expressed this thought yet more strongly in the "Life of Cowley," ending thus: "The true genius is a mind of large general powers,...accidentally determined to some particular direction," — as Cowley was made a poet, he adds, by reading Spenser's " Fairy Queen," which lay in his mother's... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1882 - 610 σελίδες
...He expressed this thought yet more strongly in the "Life of Cowley," ending thus: "The true genins is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction," — as Cowley was made a poet, he adds, by reading Spenser's " Fairy Queen," which lay in his mother's... | |
 | 1883 - 558 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." In the life of Pope . Johnson examined that poet's "favourite theory of the ruling passion, by which... | |
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. 
