Genius: And Other EssaysMoffat, Yard, 1911 - 288 páginas |
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... kind of ex- ceptional gift , if not through direct inspiration . To be sure , he lived in a superstitious time , and put faith , despite his wisdom , in certain mysteries of the quacks and alchemists , in barbarous therapeutic ...
... kind of ex- ceptional gift , if not through direct inspiration . To be sure , he lived in a superstitious time , and put faith , despite his wisdom , in certain mysteries of the quacks and alchemists , in barbarous therapeutic ...
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... kind of genius , and that most speedily and easily recognized by the world , is the specific . Its possessor is born with an irrepressible faculty for some distinctive labor , art , or science . It belongs to your poets , romancers ...
... kind of genius , and that most speedily and easily recognized by the world , is the specific . Its possessor is born with an irrepressible faculty for some distinctive labor , art , or science . It belongs to your poets , romancers ...
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... kind must have brought Schopenhauer to avow that " Genius is a man who knows without learning , and teaches the world what he never learned . " Lavater , observing its distinctive in- dividuality , said : " Who can produce what none ...
... kind must have brought Schopenhauer to avow that " Genius is a man who knows without learning , and teaches the world what he never learned . " Lavater , observing its distinctive in- dividuality , said : " Who can produce what none ...
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... kind of work . Why should we be led of malice aforethought in creative art - of which po- etry and the novel may be taken as types — to the persistent contemplation of boorish and motiveless weaklings , although they swarm about us ...
... kind of work . Why should we be led of malice aforethought in creative art - of which po- etry and the novel may be taken as types — to the persistent contemplation of boorish and motiveless weaklings , although they swarm about us ...
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... much like two of a kind . All makers of verse and story of old were classed together , and , as " literary fellows " and en- 66 couragers of dreams and idleness , were banished from Plato's [ 34 ] GENIUS AND OTHER ESSAYS.
... much like two of a kind . All makers of verse and story of old were classed together , and , as " literary fellows " and en- 66 couragers of dreams and idleness , were banished from Plato's [ 34 ] GENIUS AND OTHER ESSAYS.
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Página 85 - Darkling I listen; and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
Página 283 - Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Página 5 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 284 - That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen. \ Lovers can see to do their amorous rites By their own beauties ; or, if love be blind, It best agrees with night.
Página 26 - Good God, what a genius I had when I wrote that book!
Página 73 - If I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee; But I forgot, when by thy side That thou couldst mortal be: It never through my mind had past The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more!
Página 208 - Then wakes the power which in the age of iron Burst forth to curb the great, and raise the low. Mark, where she stands, around her form I draw The awful circle of our solemn Church! Set but a foot within that holy ground, And on thy head — yea, though it wore a crown — I launch the curse of Rome!
Página 33 - ... parsons, who happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes; but at the same time these wise reformers do not consider what an advantage and felicity it is for great wits to be always provided with objects of scorn and contempt, in order to exercise and improve their talents, and divert their spleen from falling on each other, or on themselves; especially when all this may be done without the least imaginable danger to their persons.
Página 73 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more ! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st...
Página 71 - METHINKS it is good to be here : If thou wilt, let us build — but for whom ? Nor Elias nor Moses appear ; But the shadows of eve that encompass with gloom The abode of the dead and the place of the tomb.