...are of a different kind. This second Class of great Genius's are those that have formed themselves by Rules, and submitted the Greatness of their natural...Classes of Authors may be equally great, but shews it self after a different Manner, In the first it is like a rich Soil in a happy Climate, that produces...

...are of a different kind. This second Class of great Genius's are those that have formed themselves by Rules, and submitted the Greatness of their natural...were Plato and Aristotle, among the Romans Virgil and TuUy, among the English Milton and Sir Francis Bacon. THE Genius in both these Classes of Authors may...

...Natural Geniuses (160), Addison placed Milton in the class of geniuses who "have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural...talents to the corrections and restraints of art." To this class belong Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Tully, Milton, and Sir Francis Bacon. In the Essays...

...Writings of Pope, p. 76. 1711: This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural...talents to the corrections and restraints of art. Addison, Sped. No. 160. Conjectures (p. 52): Genius is from heaven, learning from man: This sets us...

...Writings of Pope, p. 76. 1711: This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural...talents to the corrections and restraints of art. Addison, Spect. No. 160. Conjectures (p. 52): Genius is from heaven, learning from man: This sets us...

...by conversation, reflection and the reading of the most polite authors"; who have "formed themselves by rules and submitted the greatness of their natural...talents to the corrections and restraints of art." " The great danger in these latter kind of geniuses, is lest they cramp their own abilities too much...

...are of a different kind. This second Class of great Genius's are those that have formed themselves by Rules, and submitted the Greatness of their natural...Aristotle; among the Romans, Virgil and Tully; among English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon." Die Genies beider Arten mögen gleich groß sein, aber jedes...

...geniuses1 — in a distinguished fellowship of the law-abiding, with 'those that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and the restraints of art.'2 And a modern editor of Addison, Professor Cook, writes: ' That Milton would...

...Pindar, Shakespeare. 2. „The second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural...talents to the corrections and restraints of art" (z. B. Virgil). Diese Genies werden der ersten Art gleichgestellt (Spec. No. 160). In gewissem Widerspruch...

...posterity". Dieser Gruppe stehen die „learned geniuses" gegenüber, „that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural...talents to the corrections and restraints of art". Wie Dryden erkennt Addison beide in ihrer Eigenart an, aber wie Dryden bewundert er doch mehr die erste...