...his mother's chamber. Dr Johnson, in relating this circumstance, has observed, that " the true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." But the very importance which the doctor attributes to the power of accident, goes far towards confuting...

...propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius I will not inquire : perhaps a surly and sullen spectator may think such performances r Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness lor his art excited...

...are not associated with great moral qualities and noble hearts.' • Johnson says that, ' true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.' Godwin says, ' genius in the first instance is a spirit of prying observation and curiosity.' While...

...Johnson, in his Life of Cowley : " The true " genius is a mind of large general powers accident" ally determined to some particular direction." If this...motives, or in one word, education may decide it also. Here comes in the practical application of the doctrine, of which Mr. Edgeworth avails himself most...

...have entertained the same notion of genius, as that in after years expressed by Johnson the second : " A mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." And Dryden, unaware of what the dramatist said, thus writes of himself: — " The same parts and application...

...meet with, and dispose of, new and emharrassing exigencies. Johnson has said, — " The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction ;" with the single improvement, as we take it to be, of substituting providentially for accidentally,...

...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." Falcon Court. Fleet Street, at a short distance from the entrance to Chancery Lane, took its name from...

...and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called ilenius. True genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the last age, had the first fondnesb/ur his art excited by...

...Perhaps it was a train of reasoning something similar which led Dr. Johnson to define genius to be a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Although one cannot but lament the manner in which Petrarch employed his extraordinary talents, nor...

...way while yet a child. In allusion to this, Dr. Johnson gave his wellknown definition of genius : " A mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." We had almost dared to say this is rather the definition of a philosopher than of one who comprehended...