To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year,... Portfolio of an Artist - Page 2081839 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1821 - 614 pages
...of the world, and may help to unravel it ! To carry on the feeling» of childhood into the pu-acrs of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder...and woman. This is the character and privilege of ger.ius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents. And so to represent familiar objects... | |
 | 1821 - 612 pages
...rMdle of the world, and may help to unravel it ! To carry on the feelingi of childhood into the powert of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder...moon, and stars, throughout the year, And man and worn. This is the character and privilege of ge. nius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 368 pages
...creative fiat ; characterizes the mind that feels the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel it. To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers...years, had rendered familiar ; " With sun and moon ;uul stars throughout the year, And man and woman ;" this is the character and privilege of genius,... | |
 | Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis) - 1834 - 280 pages
...The first edition had a profusion of double epithets, which Coleridge afterwards speaks of, and * ' To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers...appearances which every day for perhaps forty years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...Populaire, is not your Monsieur Cobbet, as had been supposed. — Letter from Paris. What is Genins ? — To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers...years had rendered familiar, " With sun and moon, and start throughout the year. And man, and woman ;" this is the character and privilege of genins, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 610 pages
...His own earlier definition of genius is probably in the recollection of many of our readers : — ' To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers...wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every clay for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar, " With sun and moon and stars throughout the year,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1835 - 386 pages
...creative fiat, this characterizes the mind that feels the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel it. To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to I think Gerard Douw's " Schoolmaster," in the Fitzwilliam Museum, the finest thing of that sort I ever... | |
 | William Henry Furness - 1836 - 348 pages
...own fiat, this characterizes the minds that feel the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel it! To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers...is the character and privilege of genius. * * And so to present familiar objects, as to awaken the minds of others to a like freshness of sensation concerning... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 402 pages
...creative fiat, this characterizes the mind that feels the riddle of the world, and may help to unravel it. To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers...which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered fa. miliar ; ' With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman ;' — this is the... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 328 pages
...more than almost any other man, possesses that distinctive peculiarity of genius, which enables him to " carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood," has so beautifully and philosophically described this dawning of the infant mind, that I cannot forbear... | |
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