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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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 8 頁 - 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.
第 79 頁 - The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us ; oh ! and is all forgot ? All school-days friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Created with our needles both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion ; Both warbling of one song, both in one key, — As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
第 226 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 146 頁 - Hall, there was a counsellor who never pleaded without a piece of packthread in his hand, which he used to twist about a thumb, or a finger, all the while he was speaking : the wags of those days used to call it the thread of his discourse, for he was not able to utter a word without it.
第 337 頁 - Falfe eloquence, like the prifmatic glafs, Its gaudy colours fpreads on ev'ry place ; The face of Nature we no more furvey, All glares alike", without diftinftion gay : But true Expreffion, like th' unchanging Sun, 315-) Clears and improves whate'er it fhines upon, > It gilds all objefts, but it alters none.
第 31 頁 - But in, dreams it is wonderful to observe with what a sprightliness and alacrity she exerts herself. The slow of speech make unpremeditated harangues, or converse readily in languages that they are but little acquainted with. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit.
第 335 頁 - And, from the whitening undistinguish'd blaze, Collecting every ray into his kind, To the charm'd eye educ'd the gorgeous train Of Parent-Colours.
第 102 頁 - Ing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bellerophon.
第 145 頁 - ... politician, who takes half an ounce in five seconds, and has mortgaged a pretty tenement near the town, merely to improve and dung his brains with this prolific powder. I...