502 Accidental Direction of Genius. [Book X. 



called genius. True genius is a mind of large general 

 powers, accidentally determined to fome particular 

 direction. The great painter of the prefent age, had 

 the firft fondnefs for his art excited by the perufal of 

 Richardfon's treatife *." 



* Johnfon's Lives, vol. I. p. 4. 



