 | 1820 - 646 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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...the perusal of Richardson's treatise on painting.' This definition, no doubt, will generally apply to the cultivation of arts and sciences ; but true... | |
 | 1806 - 214 էջ
...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, where he is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 էջ
...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.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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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... 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. Sir Joshua... 
