...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...

...geniuses like Shakespeare and Pindar; and, secondly, the trained geniuses, "that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural...talents to the corrections and restraints of art" — men like Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Tully, and Milton. This dual concepi of genius had enormous...

...are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves by rules and submitted the greatness of their natural...Greeks were Plato and Aristotle; among the Romans, Vergil and Tully; among the English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon. The genius in both these classes...

...class of geniuses, differing in kind rather than in excellence, 'are those that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural...talents to the corrections and restraints of art'; among them are numbered Plato, Virgil, and Milton. With natural genius, Addison associates other concepts...

...to that class of geniuses, such as Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, and Cicero, who 'have formed themselves by Rules, and submitted the Greatness of their natural...Talents to the Corrections and Restraints of Art' (Spectator 160). In this Spectator essay Addison distinguishes this kind of genius from the great natural...

...submitted themselves to the 'Restraints of Art'—placed Bacon with the latter, and in fine company: 'Such among the Greeks were Plato and Aristotle, among...among the English, Milton and Sir Francis Bacon.' 4 A generation later, Jacob Brucker, busily dividing the past of philosophy into ancient, medieval,...

...Addison compares this with another kind, which I shall call the Sherringtonian kind of genius, " who have submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art. . . . The genius in both these classes of authors may be equally great, but shows itself after a different...

...other hand, which included Plato, Virgil and Milton, was defined as "those that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restreints of art" (Abrams 187). One can immediately see Addison's employaient of the stages of life....

...kind. This second Class of great Genius's are those that have formed themselves by Rules, and suhmitted the Greatness of their natural Talents to the Corrections and Restraints of Art."67 Es bedarf kaum mehr des Hinweises auf die Natur- und Pflanzenmetaphorik, das explizite Plädoyer...

...their own times and the wonder of posterity." The second kind is artists who "have formed themselves by rules and submitted the greatness of their natural...talents to the corrections and restraints of art." Addison claims to make no disparaging comparison between the two types of genius, but he does admit...