An Essay on Genius"This book covers the following topics related to genius: the nature of genius; the province and criterion of genius; to what faculty of mind genius belongs; how genius arrives from the imagination; the influence of judgment upon genius; the dependence of genius on other intellectual powers; the general sources of the varieties of genius; qualities of ideas which produce association; the influence of the passions on association; reflections of the principles of association; ideas suggested, either by sensations, or by other ideas; the combination of associating principles; the predominance of the associating principles; flexibility of imagination; the varieties of memory, and their influence on genius; the varieties of judgment, and their influence on genius; the kinds of genius; genius twofold, for science, or the the arts; the structure of imagination which distinguishes the two kinds of genius; how the two kinds of genius differ in respect of the assistance which they derive from memory; how the two kinds of genius differ in respect of the assistance which they derive from judgment; the two kinds of genius farther compared and distinguished; taste essential to genius for the arts; the power of execution necessary to genius for the arts; and the union of different kinds of genius"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved). |
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We , Hermia , like two artificial gods , Created with our needles both one flower , Both on one sampler , fitting on one cushion Both warbling of one fong , both in one key ; As if our hands , our fides , voices and minds Had been ...
We , Hermia , like two artificial gods , Created with our needles both one flower , Both on one sampler , fitting on one cushion Both warbling of one fong , both in one key ; As if our hands , our fides , voices and minds Had been ...
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able affiftance affociating already alſo appearances applied arts attend beauty belong caufe cauſe chiefly circumftances common conceive conception concerning conclufions confequence confider confiderable connected connexion continually defign determine direction effect employed enables equally excellence exertions experience faculty fame fancy fenfes fome fometimes force former fubject fuch fufficient fuggeft genius give greater habit ideas images imagination immediately influence inftances introduce invention itſelf judg judgment kind latter lead light likewife manner means memory ment mind moſt muſt nature neceffary never obferved objects occafion occur operations Orat original paffion particular perceive perception perfect perfon philofopher poet poffeffed predominant prefent principles produce proper qualities readily reaſon recollect regular relations remarked remembered render reſemblance ſcience ſome ſtrong ſuch ſuggeſted tafte taſte thefe themſelves theſe things thoſe thought tion train truth turn uſe variety whole
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Strana 108 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, 'Your son did thus and thus; Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas...
Strana 224 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Strana 333 - First the flaming red Sprung vivid forth; the tawny orange next; And next delicious yellow; by whose side Fell the kind beams of all-refreshing green. Then the pure blue, that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal...
Strana 144 - ... for he was not able to utter a word without it. One of his clients, who was more merry than wise, stole it from him one day in the midst of his pleading; but he had better have let it alone, for he lost his cause by his jest.
Strana 31 - There is not a more painful action of the mind than invention ; yet in dreams it works with that ease and activity that we are not sensible when the faculty is employed. For instance, I believe every one, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters ; in which case the invention prompts so readily, that the mind is imposed...
Strana 77 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Created with our needles both one flower, Both on one fampler, fitting on one cufhion ; Both warbling of one fong, both in one key ; As if our hands, our fides, voices, and minds Had been incorp'rate.
Strana 33 - The first and highest is the discovering and finding out of proofs ; the second, the regular and methodical disposition of them, and laying them in a clear and fit order, to make their connexion and force be plainly and easily perceived ; the third is the perceiving their connexion ; and the fourth, a making a right conclusion.
Strana 100 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
Strana 8 - Genius. — Genius is properly the faculty of invention, by means of which a man is qualified for making new discoveries in science, or for producing original works of art. We may ascribe taste, judgment, or knowledge, to a man who is incapable of invention; but we cannot reckon him a man of genius.
Strana 248 - tis, to caft one's eyes fo low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air.
Bibliografické údaje
| Název | An Essay on Genius |
| Autor | Alexander Gerard |
| Vydavatel | W. Strahan; T. Cadell, 1774 |
| Zdroj originálu: | Harvardská univerzita |
| Digitalizováno | 8. prosinec 2005 |
| Délka | Počet stran: 434 |
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