 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 oldal
...in a still greater degree, falls upon an original Writer, at his first appearance in the world. — Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well...worthy to be done, and what was never done before : Of genius, in the fine arts, the only infallible sign is the widening the sphere of human sensibility,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 oldal
...in a still greater degree, falls upon an original Writer, at his first appearance in the world. — Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well...worthy to be done, and what was never done before : Of genius, in the fine arts, the only infallible sign is the widening the sphere of human sensibility,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 oldal
...in a still greater degree, falls upon an original Writer, at his first appearance in the world. — Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well...worthy to be done, and what was never done before : Of genius, in the fine arts, the only infallible sign is the widening the sphere of human sensibility,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 oldal
...in a still greater degree, falls upon an original Writer, at his first appearance in the world. — Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well...worthy to be done, and what was never done before : Of genius, in the fine arts, the only infallible sign is the widening the sphere of human sensibility,... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 oldal
...flowery paths seem to conduct him into one great road*. You have rightly explained Genius to be the art of doing well what is worthy to be done, and what was never done before. A definition from which flow two inferences : the first implying, diligence ; the second, originality.... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 422 oldal
...flowery paths seem to conduct him into one great road*. You have rightly explained Genius to be the art of doing well what is worthy to be done, and what was never done before. A definition from which flow two inferences : the first implying, diligence ; the second, originality.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 oldal
...than it has been done by others. If we were fully to admit his own test of genius,—namely, " the art of doing well what is worthy to be done, and what was never done before"—we should deny that Wordsworth has any genius at all. It is true that he has frequently "... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 142 oldal
...passions of manhood•" Madame de Stat-1 says it is "Enthusiasm acting upon talent," Wordsworth: ''the art of doing well what is worthy to be done, and what was never done before." John Foster says " one of the strongest characteristics of Genius is the puieer of lighting its awn... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 oldal
...service, in a still greater degree, falls upon an original writer, at his first appearance in the world. —Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well...worthy to be done, and what was never done before : Of genius, in the fine arts, the only infallible sign is the widening the sphere of human sensibility,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 oldal
...service, in a still greater degree, falls upon an original writer, at his first appearance in the world. Of genius the only proof is, the act of doing well...worthy to be done, and what was never done before. Of genius, in the fine arts, the only infallible sign is the widening the sphere of human sensibility,... | |
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State twice, once when drunk, and once when sober: — sober, that they might not be deficient in formality; drunk, lest they should be destitute of vigor. The long wordy discussions by which he tries to reason us into admiration of his poetry speak very... 
