 ... forgotten, produce 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 general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction....  The Quarterly Review - Page 404edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 646 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise. " In this definition of genius, Reynolds fully concurred with Dr Johnson ; and he was himself an instance... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's tie^tise. VOL. I. B By By his mother's solicitation he was admmitted into Westminster-school, where... | |
 | David Irving - 1804 - 524 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise15." The future eminence of Dr Geddes as a biblical critic may, without any affectation of... | |
 | 1805 - 456 pages
...accidentally determined to some particular direction :* and we are told by the same author, ' that the late Sir Joshua Reynolds had the first fondness for his...art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise on painting.' This definition, no doubt, will generally apply to the cultivation of arts and sciences... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise. By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster school, where he was soon distinguished.... | |
 | 1806 - 214 pages
...powers, accidentally determined to some particular 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 his mother's solicitation Cowley was admitted a king's scholar of Westminster school,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pages
...determined to some particuJar direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise. By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster-school, where he was soon distinguished.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 pages
...beauties of his elaborate verse. Dr. Johnson informs us, that the late great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his 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 pages
...determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great Painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise. By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster-school, where he was soon distinguished.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...determined to some particular 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 his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster school, where he was soon distinguished.... | |
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