I never nurs'd a dear gazelle,
To glad me with its soft black eye,
But when it came to know me well
And love me, it was sure to die.
I never had a piece of toast particularly long and
wide,
But fell upon the sanded floor,
And always on the buttered side.
Parody of Mookb. Probably by James
Patn. Appeared in Chambers' Journal.
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GENEROSITY (See Gifts)
GENIUS
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia.
There is no great genius without a mixture
of madness.
Aristotle. Quoted by Burton—Anatomy of
Melancholy. Assigned to Aristotle also
by Seneca—Problem. 30. Same idea in
Seneca—De TranquiUitate Animi. XVII.
10. Cicero—Tusculum. I. 33. 80; also
iaDeDw. I. 37.
Doing easily what others find it difficult is
talent; doing what is impossible for talent is
genius.
Henri-Frederic Amtbl—Journal.
As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone
smooths a second, all the parte of intellect are
whetstones to each other; and genius, which is
but the result of their mutual sharpening, is
character too.
C. A. Babtol—Radical Problems. Individualism.
Le Genie, c'est la patience.
Genius is only patience.
Buffon, as quoted by Madame de Staël in
A. Stevens' Study of the Life and Times
of Mme. de Staël. Ch. III. P. 61. (Ed.
1881.) Le genie n'est qu'une plus grande
aptitude a la patience. As narrated by
Herault de Sechelles—Voyage d Montbar. P. 15, when speaking of a talk with
Button in 1785. (Not in Buffon's works.}})
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity
of taking trouble.
Carlyle-^ Frederick the Great. Bk. IV. Ch. m.
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
Leslie Stephen. Genius is an intuitive
talent for labor. Jan Wal/bus.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benj. Disraeli—Contarini Fleming. Pt. IV.
Ch.5.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the
companion of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli—Curiosities of Literature.
Poverty of the Learned,
Many men of genius must arise before a
particular man of genius can appear.
Isaac D'Israeli—Literary Character of Men
of Genius.
_ To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand
divisions of men of genius—the men of reasoning and the men of imaginaton.
Isaac D'Israeli—Literary Character of Men
of Genius. Ch. II.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli—Literary Character of Men
of Genius. Ch.XII.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
Isaac D'Israeli—Literary Character of Men
of Genius. Ch.XXV.
But genius must be born, and never can be
taught.
Dryden—Epistle X. To Congreve. L. 60.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates
a genius to do it.
Emerson—Method of Nature.
The hearing ear is always found close to the
speaking tongue: and no genius can long or
often utter anything which is not invited and
gladly entertained by men around him.
Emerson—Race.
Vivitur ingenio, that damn'd motto there
Seduced me first to be a wicked player.
Farquhar—Love and a Bottle. Epilogue
written and spoken by Joseph Haynes.
The motto "Vivitur ingenio" appears to
have been displayed in Drury Lane Theatre.
| seealso = (See also Spenser)
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Genius and its rewards are briefly told :
A liberal nature and a niggard doom,
A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.
Forster—Dedication of the Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith.
Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.
John Foster.
Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahrheits-Liebe.
The first and last thing required of genius is
the love of truth.
Goethe—SprHche in Prosa. III.
<poem>Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was
such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
