...this honor would be Spectator No. 160, which gives account of two types of geniuses — the natural, "who by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning" have delighted readers, geniuses like Shakespeare and Pindar; and, secondly, the trained geniuses, "that...

...thoughts together on so uncommon a subject. Among great geniuses, those few draw the admiration of all the world upon them, and stand up as the prodigies...were the delight of their own times and the wonder of posterity.3 There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in these great natural geniuses that...

...Hearers, and Virgil leaves us Readers. B Among great Genius's, those few draw the Admiration of all the World upon them, and stand up as the Prodigies...nobly wild and extravagant in these great natural Genius's, that is infinitely more beautiful than all the Turn and Polishing of what the French call...

...made. Natural geniuses, a class comprising Homer, Pindar, the Old Testament poets, and Shakespeare, arc 'the prodigies of mankind, who by the mere strength...of their own times, and the wonder of posterity.' The second class of geniuses, differing in kind rather than in excellence, 'are those that have formed...

...to echo, and facetiously to extend, Addison's praise of such 'great Genius's' as Homer and Pindar, 'who by the mere Strength of natural Parts, and without...Delight of their own Times and the Wonder of Posterity' (The Spectator, No. 160 [3 September 1711]). By extending the unnecessary qualifications of authorship...

...einer festumrisscncn Definition zu kommen: Among great Genius's, those few draw the Admiration of all the World upon them, and stand up as the Prodigies...their own Times and the Wonder of Posterity. There appeares something nobly wild and extravagant in these great natural Genius's, that is infinitely more...

...considers in 1711 in his article on original genius in The Spectator, the possibility of creative greatness "by the mere strength of natural parts and without any assistance of art or learning." In another long poem, Gedunken iiher Vernunft, Aberglauben und Unglauhcn (1729), Haller still speaks...

...apply to Cajal and Sherrington rather well. The first, or Cajalian kind, "draw the admiration of all the world upon them, and stand up as the prodigies...mankind, who by the mere strength of natural parts. . . . have produced works that were the delight of our own times and the wonder of posterity. There...

...späten 50er Jahren variiert und popularisiert worden ist. Bei diesem Typ geht es um einen Dichter, "who by the mere Strength of natural Parts, and without...Art or Learning, have produced Works that were the Deligbt of their own Times and the Wonder of Posterity. There appears something nobly wild and extravagant...

...Testament poets and Shakespeare as representatives of natural genius which he defined as "the prodiges of mankind, who by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art and learning, have produced works that were the delight of their own times, and the wonder of prosperity"1...