 Queen; in which he very early took delight to read, till by feeling the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation...  The Lives of the English Poets - Страница 5по Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 420 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 страници
...commonly called Genius. The troe Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally Vol. VI. . B determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua...By his mother's solicitation he Was admitted into Westminster-school, where he was soon distinguished. He was wont, says Sprat, to relate, " That he... | |
 | James Northcote - 1819 - 382 страници
...mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The trne genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally...to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, tbe great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 страници
...perhaps " sometimes forgotten, produce that pecu" liar designation of mind, and propensity " for some certain science or employment, " which is commonly called Genius. The " true genius is a man of large gene" ral powers accidentally determined to " some particular direction. Sir Joshua "... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 страници
...perhaps " sometimes forgotten, produce that pecu" liar designation of mind, and propensity " for some certain science or employment, " which is commonly called Genius. The " true genius is a man of large gene" ral powers accidentally determined to " some particular direction. Sir Joshua "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 страници
...and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called...he was admitted into Westminster school, where he was soon distinguished. He was wont, says Sprat, to relate, " that he had this defect in his memory... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 страници
...and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called...he was admitted into Westminster- school, where he was soon distinguished. He was wont, says Sprat, to relate, " that he had this defect in his memory... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 страници
...sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain scienca or employment, which is commonly called Genius. The...By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster-school, where he was soon distinguished. He was wont, says Sprat, to relate, " that he... | |
 | 1820 - 208 страници
...and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, aad propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called...direction Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise on Painting. By... | |
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - 1820 - 138 страници
...Neither Goldsmith, nor Akenside, were successful iis pbysicians. f " True genius," says Johnson, " is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction." 64 inconsistent with too small as with too great a decree of difficulty. As there are some subjects... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 594 страници
...fact he seems nearly to adopt the doctrine of Dr. Johnson, in his Life of Cowley : ' The true genins is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.' If this doctrine be true, human minds, great and small alike, are at the first indifferent to any art,... | |
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