He was not a man of great genius, but of unwearied industry and the purest virtue and integrity.
Lamb who was dozing by the fire turned round and said, "Pray, sir, did you say Milton was a great genius?
After an awful pause the comptroller said, "Don't you think Newton a great genius?
There is not a heroic scribbler in the nation that has not his admirers who think him a great genius; and as for your smatterers in tragedy, there is scarce a man among them who is not cried up by one or other for a prodigious genius.
My design in this paper is to consider what is properly a great genius, and to throw some thoughts together on so uncommon a subject.
I cannot quit this head without observing that Pindar was a great genius of the first class, who was hurried on by a natural fire and impetuosity to vast conceptions of things and noble sallies of imagination.
A great genius I admit,” said the man in grey, “but pardon me, not exactly the greatest Ynis Fon has produced.
A great genius, a very great genius, sir,” said the innkeeper, after I had got on my feet and put on my hat.
I think him a great genius(1008) and without having recourse to the Countess's translatable periods, am pleased with his company.
Rinuncini returns to you this week, not at all contented with England: Niccolini is extremely, and turns his little talent to great account; there is nobody of his own standard but thinks him a great genius.
But Dryden did not say that great genius was to madness near allied.
Dryden was a great genius himself, and knew better.
We have all heard people cite the celebrated line of Dryden as "Great genius is to madness near allied.
Charles Lloyd, spoken of in a letter of my father's in the last chapter as "a young man of great genius," was born Feb.
Lloyd is a very good fellow, and most certainly a young man of great genius.
He is a very extraordinary creature, and if he live will, I doubt not, prove a great genius.
Men of great genius have, indeed, as an essential of their composition, great sensibility, but they have likewise great confidence in their own powers, and fear must always precede anger in the human mind.
A lad comes to the university who has been regarded in his own family as a great genius, and who has even distinguished himself at some little country school.
Of course, if I had fancied myself a great genius, it would have seemed nothing strange that the thoughts I had written down in my little study in the country manse, should be read by many fellow-creatures four thousand miles off.
For anything you knew then, you might be a great genius; whereas if the world, even ten years later, has not yet recognized you as a great genius, it is all but certain that it never will recognize you as such at all.
As it was we are likely to think of it as time wasted by a great genius painter.
Nobility is usually willing to be related to great genius, but genealogists have not been able to trace the relationship.
It is very little material to our knowledge of Fielding as an honest man and a great genius to discover, were it possible, precisely what changes his political views underwent.
It is easy for his Newgate chaplain to assert that "nothing is so sinful as sin"; it takes a great genius and a great moralist to convince us, as in this picture, that nothing is so deformed or so contemptible.
The want of this too often saddens the life of a great genius, and offers small encouragement for further efforts in future times.
These are signs of a great genius, which make us regret all the more that the whole work is not dictated and inspired by the same spirit.
Men of great genius had a passion for performing in these extemporal comedies.
Some also were sensible that they spoke much better than they were able to write; which is generally the case of those who have a great genius, but little learning, such as Servius Galba.
They exhibit the out-lines of a great genius; but such, however, as are evidently rude and imperfect.
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