... 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.... Curiosities of Literature - Page 81by Isaac Disraeli - 1859Full 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... | |
| David Irving - English poetry - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Abraham Cowley - English literature - 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.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 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.... | |
| Biography - 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 - 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 - English poetry - 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.... | |
| 1811 - 644 pages
...Miss Price and the baby Jupiter ?" — " 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." Johnson's life of Cowley. " I know no man (says the same great writer, in another place) who has passed... | |
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