 ... he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Seite 2von Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1806 - 214 Seiten
...sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some dertain 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,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 Seiten
...Pope's person the inimitable beauties of his elaborate verse. Dr. Johnson informs us, that the late great painter of the present age, had the first fondness...art excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise. M. Vaucanson displayed an uncommon genius for Mechanics. His taste was first determined by this accident;... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 Seiten
...sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius. The...Richardson's treatise. By his mother's solicitation hr was admitted into Westminster-school, where he was soon di- ' stinguished. He was wont, says Sprat,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 Seiten
...forgotten, pro" duce that particular designation of mind and propensity for " some certain science or employment, which is commonly " called genius. The true genius is a mind of large genc" ral powers, accidentally determined to some particular " direction." 'Whether the circumstances... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commoilly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large...direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the presuutage, kad the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise. By... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 Seiten
...sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius. The...genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally deter- . mined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present-... | |
 | Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The...treatise. By his mother's solicitation he was admitted in Westminster-school, where he was soon distinguished. He was wont, says Sprat, to relate, " That... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 638 Seiten
...passions, touched with sweeter truth, than in his portraits of Miss Price and the baby Jupiter?" — " Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present...excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise." Johnson's life of Cowley. " I know no man (says the same great writer, in another place) who has passed... | |
 | 1811 - 644 Seiten
...passions, touched with sweeter truth, than in his portraits of Miss Price and the baby Jupiter ?" — " Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present...excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise." Johnson's life of Cowley. " I know no man (says the same great writer, in another place) who has passed... | |
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