 | 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... | |
 | 1805 - 456 pages
...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... | |
 | Biography - 1806 - 214 pages
...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,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...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 - 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
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...determined to some particiilar 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 in' 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... 
