 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 pages
...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 particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...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 particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...propensity for some certain science of employment, which is commonly called Genius. The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...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 particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commoilly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the presuutage, kad the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 622 pages
...original native capacity in different men ; but to deny i. 4 a»v noctnno UK uui. alike, are at tlie first indifferent to any art, science, or profession....motives, or in one word, education may decide it also. Here comes in the practical application of the doctrine, of whuli Mr. Edgeworth avails himself most... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - 572 pages
...propensity for some " certain science or employment, which is com" monly called genius. The true genius is a mind " of large general powers, 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
...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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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. 
