"It [Genius] is an incommunicable faculty: no art or skill of the possessor can bestow the smallest portion of it on another: no pains or labour can reach the summit of perfection, where the seeds of it are wanting in the mind; yet it is capable of infinite improvement where it actually exists, and is attended with the highest capacity of communicating instruction, as well as delight to others."
Miscellaneous Observations on Genius, Taste, Good Sense, &c. [from Essays on Various Subjects]
11 entries in ESTC (1777, 1778, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1791, 1792, 1796).<br>
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<u>Essays on Various Subjects: Principally Designed for Young Ladies.</u> (London: Printed for J. Wilkie; and T. Cadell, 1777). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004802373.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;