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Example sentences for "true genius"

  • Herein seems to lie the power of true genius--that its productions give not only a sense of freshness and delight, but that the sensation so conveyed will not die.

  • Honest George," however, laboured under a disadvantage common perhaps more or less to all men possessed of true genius.

  • But apart from the passions, true genius is the most practical of all human gifts.

  • I believe that this self-conquest showed that the boy had true genius.

  • If the reader pursue this hint throughout the poem, these compliments to his friends, always at his own expense, exhibit a singular mixture of the sensibility and the frankness of true genius, which Swift himself has honestly confessed.

  • And yet it is seduction, and not reward, which mere fashionable society offers the man of true genius.

  • In frivolous fatigues, and vigils without meditation, perish the unvalued hours which, true genius knows, are always too brief for art, and too rare to catch its inspirations.

  • Since the establishment of Greek independence, three writers have secured for themselves a permanent place in literature as men of true genius: the two brothers Panagiotis and Alexander Santsos, and Alexander RangabĂ©.

  • The stories are told with a life and freshness that belong only to true genius, and a picture is given of human life in all its reality, genuine, vivid, and true.

  • It is a characteristic of true genius to disturb= 15 =all settled ideas.

  • A true genius may be known by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

  • When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

  • The Sanity of True Genius" and "The Genteel Style in Writing").

  • It belongs to true genius to indulge its own humour; to give a loose to its own sallies; and to be curbed, restrained and directed by that sound judgment alone which necessarily attends it.

  • True genius may be said to consist of a perfect polish of soul, which receives and reflects the images that fall upon it, without warping or distortion.

  • That a true taste is as rare to be found as a true genius, ver.

  • The very first line says, Peace to all such: but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame aspires.


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