An Essay on GeniusW. Strahan; T. Cadell, 1774 - 434 頁 "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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Alexander Gerard . follows in its foot - fteps , keeps pace with it , and recalls it when it has made an useless ex- curfion . It follows , that the two laft opera- tions which Locke affigns to reafon , are the only ones which properly ...
Alexander Gerard . follows in its foot - fteps , keeps pace with it , and recalls it when it has made an useless ex- curfion . It follows , that the two laft opera- tions which Locke affigns to reafon , are the only ones which properly ...
第 49 頁
... follows any affociation , however trivial or devious , that hits his fancy , may show a gat deal of imagination without difplaying real genius . The imagination . produces abundance of glaring , brilliant thoughts ; but not being ...
... follows any affociation , however trivial or devious , that hits his fancy , may show a gat deal of imagination without difplaying real genius . The imagination . produces abundance of glaring , brilliant thoughts ; but not being ...
第 52 頁
... from this to others , yielding up the mind to follow paffively what- ever affociations chance to affect it . This is \ in an eminent degree the cafe of Montaigne in in many of his effays . He fays juftly of 52 PART I. How Genius arifes.
... from this to others , yielding up the mind to follow paffively what- ever affociations chance to affect it . This is \ in an eminent degree the cafe of Montaigne in in many of his effays . He fays juftly of 52 PART I. How Genius arifes.
第 62 頁
... follow , that genius muft , in a confider- able degree , derive its origin from fome other power of the mind . But it will ap- pear upon enquiry , that imagination contri- butes very much to the difpofition of every work . WHEN a perfon ...
... follow , that genius muft , in a confider- able degree , derive its origin from fome other power of the mind . But it will ap- pear upon enquiry , that imagination contri- butes very much to the difpofition of every work . WHEN a perfon ...
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affiftance affociating principles affociating qualities alfo almoſt alſo arifes ariſes artiſt arts aſſociating cafe caufe cauſe circumftances co-exiſtence compariſon conclufions confequence confiderable connected connexion cuftom defcription defign degree difpofition diſcover diſcovery diſplay effect exerciſe exertions experience faid fame fancy fenfe fentiments fimilar firſt fome fometimes fpecies ftrength ftrongly fubject fuch ideas fufficient fuggeft genius gination greateſt himſelf imagination influence inftances introduce invention inveſtigation itſelf judgment kind lefs likewife manner meaſure memory ment mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary neceſſary nexion nius obferved objects occafion Orat paffion perceive perception perfect perfon philofopher PLIN poet poffeffed prefent principle of affociation produce purpoſe purſuing quæ real genius reaſon relations relations of ideas render reſemblance reſpect ſcarce ſcience ſcientific ſenſe ſeveral ſhow ſome ſtrong ſuch ſuggeſted tafte taſte thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion tural uſe variety καὶ τὸ
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第 108 頁 - 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...
第 224 頁 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
第 333 頁 - 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...
第 144 頁 - ... 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.
第 31 頁 - 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...
第 77 頁 - 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.
第 33 頁 - 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.
第 100 頁 - Greek legend, a monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
第 8 頁 - 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.
第 248 頁 - tis, to caft one's eyes fo low ! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air.