 | British poets - 1822 - 306 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 Bailey - 1823 - 424 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 of his art excited... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 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 had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusual of Richardson's Treatise."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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 - 1826 - 430 pages
...propensity for aome 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 pages
...estimate may be formed by an anecdote related by Dr. Johnson, in his Life of Cowley. " 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 his first fondness for his art, excited... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...however, such men could not have shone dimly, if true • genius be correctly defined by Dr. Johnson as " a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction."* — So with Davy ; his mind was as vigorous as it was original, and no less logical and precise than... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...however, such men could not have shone dimly, if true genius be correctly defined by Dr. Johnson as " a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction."*— So with Davy ; his mind was as vigorous as it was original, and no less logical and precise than it... | |
 | 1834 - 784 pages
...unjust. He sets out with a definition of genius which is surely incorrect. " The true genius," says he, " is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction." Now almost all genius has its faculties given in various ways, and unequal proportions ; and according... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...channel. His 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 particular direction," appears to have suggested or confirmed it. The point must still remain a matter of speculation, for... | |
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. 
