...passions, touched with sweeter truth, than in his portraits of Miss Price and the baby Jupiter ?" — " Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present...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...

...and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called...large general powers, accidentally determined to some particiilar direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter of the present age, had the first fondness...

..." designation of mind and propensity for some " certain science or employment, which is com" monly called genius. The true genius is a mind " of large...accidentally determined " to some particular direction." Whether the circumstances which are likely to form the taste occur by chance, or result from design,...

...just ; but, if it be true, as Johnson affirms, and this eminent philosopher seems to admit, that ' the true genius is a mind of large general powers...accidentally determined to some particular direction,' it must have been owing lo such accidental determination, that Dr Robertson appeared not eminent in...

...what originally bent his mind this way does not appear. It was a favourite notion of Johnson's, that ' the true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined -*L to some particular direction.' Such also was the opinion of Sir Joshua. ' It was ever his decided...

...inherent natural propensities and innate ideas ; and Dr. Johnson has oracularly pronounced, that " the true genius is a mind of large general powers,...accidentally determined to some particular direction."* Yet, as the faculties of the mind are not simple and uniform, but quite as various, as dissimilar,...

...and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called...excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise." To'these instances that of Ruhnken may, I think, be added. This illustrious classical scholar was destined...

...and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called...some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the grest painter of the present age, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's...

...and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called...By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster-school, where he was soon distinguished. He was wont, says Sprat, to relate, " That " he...

...considered as proving that they were born with some peculiar genius for some peculiar study. Sir J. Reynolds had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of " Richardson's Treatise on Painting ;" and Mr. Boydell was induced to learn the art of engraving, by a coarse print of a coarse...