 | 1887 - 722 pagina’s
...in his Life of Abraham Cowley is the text of such discourses. ' The true genius,' said Johnson, 'is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.' On this showing, Thackeray might have become a Napoleon or Warren Hastings, if he had gone to Haileybury... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1888 - 572 pagina’s
...George BlrkbeckHill, DCL Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1888. " The true genius," said Dr. Johnson, " is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction." Whether this can be admitted as universally true is a matter of considerable doubt. Though Michael... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pagina’s
...Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. called Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1889 - 288 pagina’s
...genii.'] Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. Pope, Iliad, Pref. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Johnson. In building that house, he won for himself, or for the nameless genius whom he set to work,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 294 pagina’s
...maintained the opposite of this. " The true genius," he says in the beginning of his Life of Cowlcy, " is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." importance, and by which every man is enabled to relate his own actions better than another's. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pagina’s
...maintained the opposite of this. "The true genius," he says in the beginning of his Life of Cowley, " is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." 2 " The general precept of consulting the genius is of little use, unless we are told how the genius... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 pagina’s
...was due. Johnson, however, was not, I think, far wrong when he maintained that, " the true genius is a mind of large, general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." 1 Unless liberty is given, a determining accident may never occur, and the genius may never be unfolded.... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pagina’s
...many a text among the greater men which seems to bear them out. Thus, Dr. Johnson defined genius as "a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction" (BusWKLi, : Life of Johnson}, or, more conciselv, " Genius is, in fact, knowing the use of tools" (МлОлмк... | |
 | GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL - 1892 - 418 pagina’s
...was due. Johnson, however, was not, I think, far wrong when he maintained that, " the true genius is a mind of large, general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." 1 Unless liberty is given, a determining accident may never occur, and the genius may never be unfolded.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pagina’s
...many a text among the greater men which seems to bear them out. Thus, Dr. Johnson defined genius as " G Ö0 9 j { ޠ. , h հ'U g ] l J ђժ Z 3L@ C F ]~ P/o (BOSWELL : Life of Johnson), or, more concisely, "Genius is, in fact, knowing the use of tools" (MADAME... | |
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. 
