 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 ページ
...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, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1836 - 422 ページ
...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.... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - 1836 - 322 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1856 - 454 ページ
...professedly his literary life and opinions, but, in fact, a treatise de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis. He goes wrong by reason of his very profundity, and...— indeed ! then it follows that in doing what is wwworthy to be done, or what has been done before, no genius can be evinced ; yet the picking of pockets... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 ページ
...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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Of genius the only proof is the act of doing well what is worthy to be done, and what was never done before; 
