Genii to Geniuses
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
genii, n. (3)
Hist 2.18 13 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest
said to me that the
woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them
suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward;...
Nat2 3.175 25 The muse herself betrays her son [the
poor young poet], and
enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of
the
air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty
favor, as if
from patrician genii to patricians...
Bty 6.287 16 The ancients believed that a genius or
demon took possession
at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes
seen
as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they
governed;...
Genii, n. (1)
PPr 12.391 10 [Carlyle's laughter] is like the laughter
of the Genii in the
horizon.
Genius, Eternal, n. (1)
GoW 4.283 26 The old Eternal Genius who built the world
has confided
himself more to this man [the writer] than to any other.
genius, n. (675)
Nat 1.22 9 ...whosoever has seen a person of...happy
genius, will have
remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
Nat 1.34 14 [The relation between mind and matter] is
the standing
problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine
genius
since the world began;...
Nat 1.37 18 Debt...whose iron face...the sons of genius
fear and hate;...is a
preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
AmS 1.90 9 The soul active sees absolute truth and
utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius;...
AmS 1.90 14 The book...the institution of any kind,
stop with some past
utterance of genius.
AmS 1.90 16 ...genius looks forward...
AmS 1.90 18 ...genius creates.
AmS 1.91 4 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of
genius by over-influence.
AmS 1.91 5 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of
genius by over-influence.
AmS 1.93 23 ...[colleges] can only highly serve
us...when they gather from
far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls...
AmS 1.109 4 ...there are data for marking the genius of
the Classic, of the
Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.
AmS 1.112 4 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the
genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper...
AmS 1.112 18 Goethe...has shown us...the genius of the
ancients.
AmS 1.112 19 There is one man of genius who has done
much for this
philosophy of life...I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
AmS 1.112 27 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a
purely
philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time. Such an
attempt of course must have difficulty which no genius could surmount.
DSA 1.126 17 Europe has always owed to oriental genius
its divine
impulses.
DSA 1.143 20 Genius leaves the temple to haunt the
senate or the market.
LE 1.156 3 The few scholars in each country, whose
genius I know, seem
to me not individuals but societies;...
LE 1.156 26 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse
itself by a brood
of Titans, who should...run up the mountains of the West with the
errand of
genius and love.
LE 1.162 11 ...you must come to know that each
admirable genius is but a
successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
LE 1.164 11 Concede to [the man of letters]
genius...and he is content;...
LE 1.164 14 ...concede [the man of letters] talents
never so rare, denying
him genius, and he is aggrieved.
LE 1.165 22 The vision of genius comes by renouncing
the too officious
activity of the understanding...
LE 1.170 20 The moment a man of genius pronounces the
name of the
Pelasgi...we see their state under a new aspect.
LE 1.172 9 Go and talk with a man of genius...
LE 1.179 25 The vulgar call good fortune that which
really is produced by
the calculations of genius.
LE 1.182 12 The man of genius should occupy the whole
space between
God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
MN 1.204 9 With this conception of the genius or method
of nature, let us
go back to man.
MN 1.204 19 There is virtue, there is genius, there is
success, or there is not.
MN 1.206 15 ...when the genius comes, it makes
fingers...
MN 1.206 23 England, France, and America read
Parliamentary Debates, which no high genius now enlivens;...
MN 1.207 5 When Nature has work to be done, she creates
a genius to do it.
MN 1.207 9 ...what strikes us in the fine genius is
that which belongs of
right to every one.
MN 1.208 17 Is not this the theory of every man's
genius or faculty?
MN 1.209 2 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in
the fidelity with
which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point
on
which his genius can act.
MN 1.211 19 [This ecstatic state] respects genius and
not talent;...
MN 1.213 11 ...as the power or genius of nature is
ecstatic, so must its
science or the description of it be.
MR 1.231 4 Has [the young man] genius and virtue? the
less does he find [the employments of commerce] fit for him to grow
in...
MR 1.243 7 Let [the man with a strong bias to the
contemplative life] feel
that genius is a hospitality...
MR 1.243 11 [The man with a strong bias to the
contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence, forewarned
and forearmed against that
frequent misfortune of men of genius,-the taste for luxury.
MR 1.243 13 [The man with a strong bias to the
contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence, forewarned
and forearmed against that
frequent misfortune of men of genius,-the taste for luxury. This is the
tragedy of genius;...
MR 1.256 9 There is a sublime
prudence...which...postpones talent to
genius, and special results to character.
LT 1.259 15 The Times are...the quarry out of which the
genius of to-day is
building up the Future.
LT 1.275 17 See how daring is the reading, the
speculation, the
experimenting of the time. If now some genius shall arise who could
unite
these scattered rays!
LT 1.275 19 See how daring is the reading, the
speculation, the
experimenting of the time. If now some genius shall arise who could
unite
these scattered rays! And always such a genius does embody the ideas of
each time.
LT 1.283 3 The genius of the day does not incline to a
deed, but to a
beholding.
LT 1.287 2 I do not wish to be guilty of the narrowness
and pedantry of
inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and
insufficient
facts or persons.
LT 1.289 12 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence
or absence... genius or depravation.
Con 1.309 7 My genius leads me to build a different
manner of life from
any of yours.
Con 1.310 16 ...[existing institutions] foster genius.
Tran 1.339 9 ...genius and virtue predict in man the
same absence of
private ends and of condescension to circumstances...
Tran 1.340 21 ...the history of genius and of religion
in these times...will
be the history of this [Transcendental] tendency.
Tran 1.345 7 ...this masterpiece is the result of such
an extreme delicacy
that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most
aspiring
genius, and spoil the work.
Tran 1.345 20 In looking at the class of counsel...and
at the matronage of
the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the
invisible and heavenly world, to these?
Tran 1.348 11 What right, cries the good world, has the
man of genius to
retreat from work, and indulge himself?
Tran 1.348 14 The popular literary creed seems to be, I
am a sublime
genius; I ought not therefore to labor.
Tran 1.348 15 ...genius is the power to labor better
and more availably.
Tran 1.348 16 Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
Tran 1.356 26 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and
stilted; all freedom
and flowing genius...are quite out of the question;...
YA 1.368 14 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the
same advantage over
an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who
has
a genius for that work.
YA 1.370 4 ...we shall yet have an American genius.
YA 1.385 6 ...many people have...a genius for the
disposition of affairs;....
YA 1.390 13 We have our own affairs, our own genius,
which chains each
to his proper work.
Hist 2.3 13 [The universal mind's] genius is
illustrated by the entire series
of days.
Hist 2.6 17 Universal history, the poets, the
romancers, do not in their
stateliest pictures...in the triumphs of will or of genius,--anywhere
make us
feel...that this is for better men;...
Hist 2.9 23 I can find...the genius and creative
principle of each and of all
eras, in my own mind.
Hist 2.13 5 Why should we make account of time, or of
magnitude, or of
figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how
to play with them...
Hist 2.13 8 Genius studies the causal thought...
Hist 2.13 11 Genius watches the monad through all his
masks as he
performs the metempsychosis of nature.
Hist 2.13 13 Genius detects through the fly, through
the caterpillar, through
the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
Hist 2.14 17 Observe the sources of our information in
respect to the Greek
genius.
Hist 2.15 9 ...of the genius of one remarkable people
we have a fourfold
representation...
Hist 2.26 15 A person of childlike genius and inborn
energy is still a
Greek...
SR 2.45 9 ...to believe that what is true for you in
your private heart is true
for all men,-that is genius.
SR 2.45 23 In every work of genius we recognize our own
rejected
thoughts;...
SR 2.47 10 A man is relieved and gay when he has put
his heart into his
work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall
give
him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the
attempt his
genius deserts him;...
SR 2.47 17 Great men have always...confided themselves
childlike to the
genius of their age...
SR 2.51 26 I shun father and mother and wife and
brother when my genius
calls me.
SR 2.61 13 ...millions of minds so grow and cleave to
[Christ's] genius that
he is confounded with virtue...
SR 2.64 5 The inquiry leads us to that source, at once
the essence of genius, of virtue, of life, which we call...Instinct.
SR 2.71 15 Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his
genius
admonished to stay at home...
SR 2.76 1 If the finest genius studies at one of our
colleges and is not
installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his
friends and
to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
SR 2.86 25 The great genius returns to essential man.
Comp 2.99 18 ...do men desire the more substantial and
permanent
grandeur of genius?
Comp 2.126 16 The death of a dear friend, wife,
brother, lover, which
seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a
guide
or genius;...
SL 2.134 27 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical
genius convey
to others any insight into his methods?
SL 2.143 25 A man's genius...determines for him the
character of the
universe.
SL 2.145 6 Over all things that are agreeable to his
nature and genius the
man has the highest right.
SL 2.153 26 ...when the empty book has gathered all its
praise, and half the
people say, What poetry! what genius! it still needs fuel to make fire.
SL 2.155 17 [The things the great man did] are the
demonstrations in a few
particulars of the genius of nature;...
Fdsp 2.198 18 ...I respect thy genius;...
Prd1 2.221 7 I have...no genius in my economy...
Prd1 2.230 23 We must...ask why health and beauty and
genius should now
be the exception rather than the rule of human nature?
Prd1 2.231 13 Genius should be the child of genius...
Prd1 2.231 14 Genius should be the child of genius...
Prd1 2.231 17 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy,
genius;...
Prd1 2.231 23 Genius is always ascetic, and piety, and
love.
Prd1 2.232 26 A man of genius...becomes presently
unfortunate, querulous...
Prd1 2.233 20 ...who has not seen the tragedy of
imprudent genius
struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last
sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
Hsm1 2.259 11 ...why should a woman...think,
because...the cloistered
souls who have had genius and cultivation do not satisfy the
imagination
and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?
OS 2.271 9 When [the soul] breathes through [man's]
intellect, it is
genius;...
OS 2.274 23 The growths of genius are of a certain
total character...
OS 2.286 10 ...your genius will speak from you, and
mine from me.
OS 2.288 2 The same Omniscience flows into the
intellect and makes what
we call genius.
OS 2.288 16 ...genius is religious.
OS 2.290 15 The more cultivated, in their account of
their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the
man of genius they saw...
Cir 2.302 13 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as
if it had been
statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining,
as we
see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in
June
and July. For the genius that created it creates now somewhat else.
Cir 2.316 11 ...that second man...asks himself Which
debt must I pay first... the debt of money, or the debt of thought to
mankind, of genius to nature?
Cir 2.322 3 The great moments of history are the
facilities of performance
through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion.
Cir 2.322 8 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium
and alcohol are the
semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius...
Int 2.325 8 Intellect lies behind genius...
Int 2.335 3 To genius must always go two gifts, the
thought and the
publication.
Int 2.336 1 The rich inventive genius of the painter
must be smothered and
lost for want of the power of drawing...
Int 2.336 16 The thought of genius is spontaneous;...
Int 2.341 11 ...the profound genius will cast the
likeness of all creatures
into every product of his wit.
Int 2.344 15 [One soul] must treat things and books and
sovereign genius
as itself also a sovereign.
Art1 2.355 10 ...each work of genius is the tyrant of
the hour...
Art1 2.356 27 ...as I see many pictures and higher
genius in the art [of
painting], I see the boundless opulence of the pencil...
Art1 2.358 17 In happy hours, nature appears to us one
with art;...the work
of genius.
Art1 2.361 6 When I came at last to Rome and saw with
eyes the pictures, I
found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and
ostentatious...
Art1 2.362 18 The knowledge of picture dealers has its
value, but listen not
to their criticism when your heart is touched by genius.
Art1 2.368 10 It is in vain that we look for genius to
reiterate its miracles in
the old arts;...
Pt1 3.5 5 The young man reveres men of genius,
because...they are more
himself than he is.
Pt1 3.9 16 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics]
is the landscape-garden of
a modern house...
Pt1 3.10 12 I remember when I was young how much I was
moved one
morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me
at
table.
Pt1 3.11 14 ...the value of genius to us is in the
veracity of its report.
Pt1 3.11 16 ...genius realizes and adds.
Pt1 3.13 22 ...there is no body without its spirit or
genius.
Pt1 3.22 1 ...each word was at first a stroke of
genius...
Pt1 3.22 22 Genius is the activity which repairs the
decays of things...
Pt1 3.37 14 We have yet had no genius in
America...which knew the value
of our imcomparable materials...
Pt1 3.40 20 Comes [the poet] to that power, his genius
is no longer
exhaustible.
Exp 3.46 2 Ah that our Genius were a little more of a
genius!
Exp 3.47 17 ...the pith of each man's genius contracts
itself to a very few
hours.
Exp 3.50 15 There are always sunsets, and there is
always genius;...
Exp 3.51 1 Of what use is genius, if the organ is too
convex or too
concave...
Exp 3.51 21 Very mortifying is the reluctant experience
that some
unfriendly excess or imbecility neutralizes the promise of genius.
Exp 3.55 23 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that
I thought I should
not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare...but now I turn
the
pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius.
Exp 3.67 14 To-morrow again every thing looks real and
angular...common-sense
is as rare as genius,--is the basis of genius...
Exp 3.68 16 The most attractive class of people are
those who are powerful
obliquely and not by the direct stroke; men of genius, but not yet
accredited;...
Exp 3.68 20 In the thought of genius there is always a
surprise;...
Exp 3.72 26 The baffled intellect must still kneel
before this...ineffable
cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some
emphatic
symbol...
Exp 3.86 4 ...the true romance which the world exists
to realize will be the
transformation of genius into practical power.
Chr1 3.89 7 It has been complained of our brilliant
English historian of the
French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau,
they
do not justify his estimate of his genius.
Chr1 3.102 5 Had there been something latent in the
man, a terrible
undemonstrated genius agitating and embarrassing his demeanor, we had
watched for its advent.
Chr1 3.104 27 How death-cold is literary genius before
this fire of life [character]!
Chr1 3.105 22 Care is taken that the greatly-destined
shall slip up into life
in the shade, with no thousand-eyed Athens to watch and blazon...every
blushing emotion of young genius.
Mrs1 3.139 13 You must have genius or a prodigious
usefulness if you will
hide the want of measure.
Mrs1 3.139 17 Society will pardon much to genius and
special gifts...
Mrs1 3.141 23 England...furnished, in the beginning of
the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves,
in Mr. Fox...
Mrs1 3.143 25 There is not only the right of conquest,
which genius
pretends...but less claims will pass for the time;...
Mrs1 3.148 7 There must be romance of character, or the
most fastidious
exclusion of impertinencies will not avail. It must be genius which
takes
that direction: it must be not courteous, but courtesy.
Gts 3.164 27 I fear to breathe any treason against the
majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts...
Pol1 3.217 10 Every thought which genius and piety
throw into the world, alters the world.
Pol1 3.221 12 I do not call to mind a single human
being who has steadily
denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral
nature. Such designs, full of genius and full of faith as they are, are
not
entertained except avowedly as air-pictures.
NR 3.225 9 The genius of the Platonists is intoxicating
to the student...
NR 3.228 13 ...as we grow older we value total powers
and effects, as the
impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. The genius is
all.
NR 3.229 26 There is a genius of a nation, which is not
to be found in the
numerical citizens...
NR 3.230 12 It is even worse in America, where, from
the intellectual
quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in
its
promise and more slight in its performance.
NR 3.230 16 We conceive distinctly enough the French,
the Spanish, the
German genius...
NR 3.233 26 The genius of nature was paramount at the
oratorio [Handel's
Messiah].
NR 3.233 27 This preference of the genius to the parts
is the secret of that
deification of art, which is found in all superior minds.
NR 3.237 27 ...our economical mother dispatches a new
genius and habit of
mind into every district and condition of existence...
NR 3.240 22 We want the great genius only for joy;...
NR 3.241 22 If you criticise a fine genius, the odds
are that you are out of
your reckoning...
NR 3.241 26 ...there is somewhat spheral and infinite
in every man, especially in every genius...
NR 3.244 17 ...let us...infer the genius of nature from
the best particulars
with a becoming charity.
NR 3.245 23 ...each man's genius being nearly and
affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality...
NER 3.254 4 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius
of the age, what
happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to
excommunicate one of its members...
NER 3.254 16 Every project in the history of
reform...is good when it is the
dictate of a man's genius and constitution...
NER 3.258 14 The ancient languages...contain wonderful
remains of
genius...
NER 3.268 23 We do not believe that...any influence of
genius, will ever
give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
NER 3.272 8 ...we are all the children of genius...
NER 3.281 3 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse
with the most
commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no
inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
NER 3.284 21 Obedience to [a man's] genius is the only
liberating
influence.
NER 3.284 26 ...only by obedience to his genius...does
an angel seem to
arise before a man...
UGM 4.3 6 All mythology opens with demigods, and the
circumstance is
high and poetic; that is, their genius is paramount.
UGM 4.5 26 A little genius let us leave alone.
UGM 4.11 4 We speak now only of...the way in which [the
sciences] seem
to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one
thing, all his life long.
UGM 4.12 21 Every carpenter who shaves with a
fore-plane borrows the
genius of a forgotten inventor.
UGM 4.14 26 ...in every solitude are those who succor
our genius and
stimulate us in wonderful manners.
UGM 4.15 22 This pleasure of full expression to that
which, [in the people'
s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the
secret of the
reader's joy in literary genius.
UGM 4.16 10 Senates and sovereigns have no
compliment...like the
addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and
presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays;...
UGM 4.16 14 Genius is the naturalist or geographer of
the supersensible
regions...
UGM 4.18 21 ...true genius seeks to defend us from
itself.
UGM 4.18 22 True genius will not impoverish, but will
liberate...
UGM 4.21 4 The veneration of mankind selects these
[great men] for the
highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials
which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
UGM 4.26 23 ...we feed on genius...
UGM 4.27 1 Every mother wishes one son a genius...
UGM 4.27 22 Every genius is defended from approach by
quantities of
unavailableness.
UGM 4.32 20 The genius of humanity is the real subject
whose biography
is written in our annals.
UGM 4.33 25 The genius of humanity is the right point
of view of history.
UGM 4.34 24 We have never come at the true and best
benefit of any
genius so long as we believe him an original force.
PPh 4.40 17 How many great men Nature is incessantly
sending up out of
night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists! the Alexandrians, a
constellation of
genius;...
PPh 4.41 6 ...Plato seems to a reader in New England an
American genius.
PPh 4.42 26 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a
genius as philosophers
must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in
one
man...
PPh 4.46 16 In a month or two, through the favor of
their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so
related as to assist their
volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they
are
thenceforward good citizens.
PPh 4.51 20 These two principles [unity and diversity]
reappear and
interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One
is...genius; the
other, talent...
PPh 4.52 17 ...the genius of Europe is active and
creative...
PPh 4.52 27 European civility is...delight...in
comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in
this element with the joy of
genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
PPh 4.54 7 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed
the genius of
Europe;...
PPh 4.56 16 ...The physical philosophers had sketched
each his theory of
the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius.
PPh 4.64 16 ...full of the genius of Europe, [Plato]
said, Culture.
PPh 4.64 22 [Plato] delighted...above all in the
splendors of genius and
intellectual achievement.
PPh 4.70 25 Socrates again, in his traits and genius,
is the best example of
that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
PPh 4.78 10 No power of genius has ever yet had the
smallest success in
explaining existence.
PPh 4.79 8 The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights
and shades after
the genius of our life.
PNR 4.88 16 ...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's
proper genius that
hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic]
school.
SwM 4.101 18 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was to
penetrate the
science of the age with a far more subtle science;...began its lessons
in
quarries and forges...
SwM 4.105 6 What was left for a genius of the largest
calibre but to go
over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite?
SwM 4.105 15 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or
other of whom had
introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of
the
difficulty, even in a highly fertile genius, of proving originality...
SwM 4.112 13 It is remarkable that this sublime genius
[Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the
synthetic method;...
SwM 4.112 15 It is remarkable that this sublime genius
[Swedenborg]...in a
book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a daring poetic synthesis,
claims to confine himself to a rigid experience.
SwM 4.115 20 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as
Swedenborg] should
take the last step also, should conceive that he might attain the
science of all
sciences...
SwM 4.124 15 ...what is real and universal cannot be
confined to the circle
of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
SwM 4.130 11 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to
depend on a happy
adjustment of heart and brain;...
SwM 4.132 8 It requires, for [Swedenborg's] just
apprehension, almost a
genius equal to his own.
SwM 4.132 21 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams
[to those of
Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it.
SwM 4.135 4 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in
the endeavor to
reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
SwM 4.139 16 For the anomalous pretension of
Revelations of the other
world,--only [Swedenborg's] probity and genius can entitle it to any
serious
regard.
SwM 4.143 16 ...[Swedenborg] did not rise to the
platform of pure genius.
SwM 4.144 21 ...in [Swedenborg's] immolation of genius
and fame at the
shrine of conscience, is a merit sublime beyond praise.
MoS 4.150 10 Another class [predisposed to
Morals]...are men of faith and
philosophy, men of genius.
MoS 4.150 23 The genius is a genius by the first look
he casts on any
object.
MoS 4.158 11 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the
stays that hold him
fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his
genius?
MoS 4.168 6 ...[Montaigne]...has the genius to make the
reader care for all
that he cares for.
MoS 4.170 21 Talent makes counterfeit ties; genius
finds the real ones.
ShP 4.189 11 The greatest genius is the most indebted
man.
ShP 4.190 2 There is no choice to genius.
ShP 4.194 20 ...when at last the greatest freedom of
style and treatment was
reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture
still
enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
ShP 4.195 4 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor
found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found
in the accumulated dramatic
materials...which had a certain excellence which no single
genius...could
hope to create.
ShP 4.199 23 ...what is best written or done by genius
in the world, was no
man's work...
ShP 4.201 10 ...the generic catholic genius who is not
afraid or ashamed to
owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age
as the
recorder and embodiment of his own.
ShP 4.203 25 Since the constellation of great men who
appeared in Greece
in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in
Elizabethan England];--yet their genius failed them to find out the
best head
in the universe.
ShP 4.204 12 It was not until the nineteenth century,
whose speculative
genius is a sort of living Hamlet, that the tragedy of Hamlet could
find such
wondering readers.
ShP 4.206 18 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and
Macready dedicate
their lives to this genius [Shakespeare];...
ShP 4.206 20 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and
Macready dedicate
their lives to this genius [Shakespeare]; him they crown, elucidate,
obey
and express. The genius knows them not.
ShP 4.214 13 [Shakespeare's] lyric power lies in the
genius of the piece.
ShP 4.217 9 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which
seemed inevitable to
such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these
[natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they
themselves say?
ShP 4.218 24 ...it must even go into the world's
history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane
life, using his genius for the
public amusement.
NMW 4.241 20 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the
people's] conviction
that he was their representative in his genius and aims...
NMW 4.252 2 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears
as a man of
genius...
GoW 4.270 3 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when
he must...write
conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate
write...without
recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these
questions
may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in
our
age.
GoW 4.271 23 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany
played no such
leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons
with
any metropolitan pride, such as might have cheered...once, a Roman or
Attic genius.
GoW 4.271 26 [Goethe]...was born with a free and
controlling genius.
GoW 4.278 1 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is read by very
intelligent
persons with wonder and delight. It is preferred by some such to
Hamlet, as
a work of genius.
GoW 4.278 10 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is] A very
provoking book to
the curiosity of young men of genius...
GoW 4.278 15 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister] with the
higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius...have also reason
to
complain.
GoW 4.284 2 I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the
highest grounds
from which genius has spoken.
GoW 4.284 23 ...there is no weapon in the armory of
universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand...
GoW 4.288 27 In this aim of culture, which is the
genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power.
GoW 4.290 11 Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and
music close by
the darkest and deafest eras.
GoW 4.290 17 The secret of genius is to suffer no
fiction to exist for us;...
ET1 5.5 26 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had
wrought in schools
or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his
friends...
ET1 5.16 4 When too much praise of any genius annoyed
[Carlyle] he
professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
ET2 5.33 7 As we neared the land [England], its genius
was felt.
ET3 5.35 12 If there be one test of national genius
universally accepted, it
is success;...
ET3 5.36 7 ...the utilitarian direction which labor,
laws, opinion, religion
take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
ET3 5.36 11 The American is only the continuation of
the English genius
into new conditions, more or less propitious.
ET4 5.45 21 It has been denied that the English have
genius.
ET4 5.47 18 ...no genius can long or often utter any
thing which is not
invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
ET4 5.55 16 [The Celts] have a hidden and precarious
genius.
ET4 5.64 27 In the case of the ship-money, the judges
delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland
shires therein are all to be
accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked
counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.
ET4 5.72 20 ...the genius of the English hath always
more inclined them to
foot-service...
ET5 5.75 14 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane
arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the
kingdom. A century later it
came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential
securities of civil
liberty invented and confirmed. The genius of the race and the genius
of the
place conspired to this effect.
ET5 5.75 15 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane
arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the
kingdom. A century later it
came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential
securities of civil
liberty invented and confirmed. The genius of the race and the genius
of the
place conspired to this effect.
ET5 5.79 24 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth
nothing
else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth,
nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the
cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it. There spoke the genius
of the
English people.
ET5 5.80 6 [The English] are impatient of genius...
ET8 5.132 4 Of that constitutional force which yields
the supplies of the
day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which
creates...genius
in poetry...
ET8 5.141 23 In Alfred, in the Northmen, one may read
the genius of the
English society...
ET11 5.186 10 ...[English nobility] see things so
grouped and amassed as
to infer easily the sum and genius...
ET11 5.190 22 ...often [English nobles] have been the
friends and patrons
of genius and learning...
ET12 5.212 16 ...we all send our sons to college, and
though he be a
genius, the youth must take his chance.
ET12 5.213 5 Genius exists there [in the college]
also...
ET12 5.213 15 ...besides this restorative genius, the
best poetry of England
of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
ET13 5.216 26 The Catholic Church, thrown on this
toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a
massive system, close fitted
to the manners and genius of the country...
ET13 5.220 11 Heats and genial periods arrive in
history...as in the
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and
seventeenth
centuries [in England], when the nation was full of genius and piety.
ET14 5.234 15 This mental materialism makes the value
of English
transcendental genius;...
ET14 5.234 19 The Saxon materialism and narrowness,
exalted into the
sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton.
ET14 5.235 16 When the Gothic nations came into Europe
they found it
lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
ET14 5.238 7 The influence of Plato tinges the British
genius.
ET14 5.240 1 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns,
Byron and
Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists.
Then
politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of
talents
without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
ET14 5.241 8 Plato had signified the same sense, when
he said, All the
great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of
nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every
subject seem to be
derived from some such source as this. This Pericles had, in addition
to a
great natural genius.
ET14 5.243 6 Such richness of genius had not existed
more than once
before [the Elizabethan age].
ET14 5.243 12 ...history reckons epochs in which the
intellect of famed
races became effete. So it fared with English genius.
ET14 5.244 19 Milton, who was the stair or high
table-land to let down the
English genius from the summits of Shakspeare, used this privilege [of
generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
ET14 5.246 7 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer
intellectual nerve of
Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius.
ET14 5.253 13 [English science] wants the connection
which is the test of
genius.
ET14 5.254 4 [Natural science in England] stands in
strong contrast with
the genius of the Germans...
ET14 5.257 5 The exceptional fact of the period is the
genius of
Wordsworth.
ET14 5.260 12 ...the two complexions, or two styles of
mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality
class,--are ever in
counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and
of
animal force...forever by their discord and their accord yield the
power of
the English State.
ET15 5.263 2 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford
education and the habits
of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray
of
genius.
ET15 5.271 12 [Punch's] sketches are usually made by
masterly hands, and
sometimes with genius;...
ET15 5.272 14 If only [the London Times] dared to
cleave to the right... genius would be its cordial and invincible
ally;...
ET16 5.273 14 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable
words on the
aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value
[Carlyle]...
ET17 5.294 6 At Edinburgh...I made the
acquaintance...of the Messrs. Chambers, and of a man of high character
and genius, the short-lived
painter, David Scott.
ET17 5.295 7 Tennyson [Wordsworth] thinks a right
poetic genius, though
with some affectation.
ET17 5.297 19 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know
that in following
the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless
also of
the few...
ET19 5.310 5 The gayeties and genius...of Punch go duly
every fortnight to
every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
F 6.12 12 ...in the second generation, if the like
genius appear, the health is
visibly deteriorated...
F 6.20 27 Neither brandy...nor genius, can get rid of
this limp band [of
Fate].
F 6.32 12 The cold will brace your limbs and brain to
genius...
Pow 6.56 27 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of
a city like New
York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or
genius or labor to it.
Pow 6.57 9 [A broad, healthy, massive
understanding]...anticipates
everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the
genius
and the scholar, it is because it is large and sluggish...
Pow 6.63 20 Men expect from good whigs put into office
by the
respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with
Mexico...than
from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson, who first
conquers his own government and then uses the same genius to conquer
the
foreigner.
Pow 6.78 14 No genius can recite a ballad at first
reading so well as
mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.
Wth 6.85 13 Nor can [a man] do justice to his genius
without making some
larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence.
Wth 6.91 23 The world is full of fops...who had
persuaded beauties and
men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
Wth 6.94 6 This speculative genius is the madness of a
few for the gain of
the world.
Wth 6.103 13 ...a dollar goes on increasing in value
with all the genius and
all the virtue of the world.
Wth 6.111 17 Our nature and genius force us to respect
ends...
Wth 6.112 2 As long as your genius buys, the investment
is safe...
Wth 6.114 17 ...if a man have a genius for painting,
poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and
an ill provider...
Wth 6.116 10 The genius of reading and of gardening are
antagonistic...
Wth 6.116 25 Spend after your genius, and by system.
Wth 6.123 26 Not less within doors a system settles
itself paramount and
tyrannical over master and mistress...cousin and acquaintance. 'T is in
vain
that genius or virtue or energy of character strive and cry against it.
Ctr 6.136 13 Bring any club or company of intelligent
men together again
after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming
genius
could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would
come up!
Ctr 6.138 16 Your man of genius pays dear for his
distinction.
Ctr 6.148 9 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may,
it will repel quite as
much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws...
Ctr 6.155 25 Solitude...is, to genius, the stern
friend...
Ctr 6.159 1 A man known to us only as a celebrity in
politics or in trade
gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some
intellectual taste
or skill; as when we learn...of the French regicide Carnot, his sublime
genius in mathematics;...
Bhr 6.169 21 Manners are the happy way of doing things;
each, once a
stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
Bhr 6.170 7 Genius invents fine manners...
Bhr 6.170 21 There are certain manners which are
learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he
or she...is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, or wealth, or
genius.
Bhr 6.193 14 ...it is not what talents or genius a man
has, but how he is to
his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.
Wsp 6.209 12 ...[Christ] standing on his genius as a
moral teacher, it is
impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
Wsp 6.209 17 ...in the momentary absence of any
religious genius that
could offset the immense material activity, there is a feeling that
religion is
gone.
Wsp 6.216 4 What a day dawns when we...have come to
know that justice
will be done to us; and if our genius is slow, our term will be long.
Wsp 6.216 17 ...genius takes its rise out of the
mountains of rectitude;...
Wsp 6.217 4 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an
ear to hear acuter
notes of right and wrong than we can. ... But, once satisfied of such
superiority, we set no limit to our expectation of his genius.
Wsp 6.218 15 The moment of your...acceptance of the
lucrative standard
will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...
Wsp 6.231 8 What is vulgar...but the avarice of reward?
'T is the
difference...of talent and genius...
Wsp 6.231 18 The genius of life is friendly to the
noble...
CbW 6.246 24 We have a debt...to every fine genius;...
CbW 6.248 10 Nothing [said Mirabeau] is impossible to
the man who can
will. Is that necessary? That shall be:--this is the only law of
success. Whoever said it, this is in the right key. But this is not the
tone and genius
of the men in the street.
CbW 6.264 14 Genius works in sport...
CbW 6.268 26 When joy or calamity or genius shall show
[the youth his
purpose], then woods, then farms...will mirror back to him its
unfathomable
heaven...
Bty 6.287 14 The ancients believed that a genius or
demon took possession
at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
Bty 6.287 20 [The ancients] thought the same genius, at
the death of its
ward, entered a new-born child...
Bty 6.288 1 We know [our friends] have intervals of
folly...but wait there
appearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.
Bty 6.302 1 The lives of the Italian artists, who
established a despotism of
genius amidst the dukes and kings and mobs of their stormy epoch, prove
how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than
their
own.
SS 7.6 17 [Archimedes and Newton] had that necessity of
isolation which
genius feels.
Civ 7.17 28 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh
start again,/ On for a
thousand years of genius more./
Civ 7.19 21 Each nation grows after its own genius...
Civ 7.26 8 ...some of our grandest examples of men and
of races come from
the equatorial regions,--as the genius of Egypt, of India and of
Arabia.
Civ 7.33 16 ...a purer morality, which kindles genius,
civilizes civilization...
Art2 7.44 14 The art [in sculpture and architecture]
resides in the model, in
the plan; for it is on that the genius of the artist is expended...
Art2 7.44 23 There is a still larger deduction to be
made from the genius of
the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified.
Art2 7.45 13 Another deduction from the genius of the
artist is what is
conventional in his art...
Art2 7.45 27 One consideration more exhausts I believe
all the deductions
from the genius of the artist in any given work.
Art2 7.47 11 Especially have we this infirmity of faith
in contemporary
genius.
Elo1 7.62 26 Of all the musical instruments on which
men play, a popular
assembly is that...out of which, by genius and study, the most
wonderful
effects can be drawn.
Elo1 7.72 8 I [Antenor] became acquainted with the
genius and the prudent
judgments of [Ulysses and Menelaus].
Elo1 7.85 15 In any knot of men conversing on any
subject, the person who
knows most about it will...lead the conversation, no matter what genius
or
distinction other men there present may have;...
Elo1 7.89 6 Next to the knowledge of the fact and its
law is method, which
constitutes the genius and efficiency of all remarkable men.
Elo1 7.89 26 By applying the habits of a higher style
of thought to the
common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and
magnificence wherever he goes. Such a power was Burke's, and of this
genius we have had some brilliant examples in our own political and
legal
men.
DL 7.109 7 Do you see the man,--his form, genius and
aspiration,--in his
economy?
DL 7.109 10 There should be...the genius and love of
the man so
conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him
should
read his character in his property...
DL 7.110 13 Another man is a mechanical genius...and
could achieve
nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
DL 7.115 23 Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best
plain-set...
DL 7.117 5 [The reform that applies itself to the
household] must come in
connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation,--not
chosen
by his parents or friends, but by his genius...
DL 7.119 24 There is many a humble house...where talent
and taste and
sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
Farm 7.140 27 The men in cities who are the centres of
energy...and the
women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of
farmers...
Farm 7.145 22 Genius even, as it is the greatest good,
is the greatest harm.
WD 7.166 18 Look up the inventors. Each has his own
knack; his genius is
in veins and spots.
WD 7.176 17 We owe to genius always the same debt, of
lifting the curtain
from the common...
WD 7.182 1 ...what has been best done in the
world,--the works of genius,-- cost nothing.
Boks 7.194 15 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the
Persians...
Boks 7.194 21 With this pilot of his own genius, let
the student read one, or
let him read many, he will read advantageously.
Boks 7.201 22 ...we must read the Clouds of
Aristophanes, and what more
of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of
Aristophanes, requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than
belonged to the
official commanders.
Boks 7.202 5 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due
time, has become
essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius.
Boks 7.202 18 Of Jamblichus the Emperor Julian said
that he was posterior
to Plato in time, not in genius.
Boks 7.212 18 ...in this rag-fair neither the
Imagination...nor the Morals, creative of genius and of men, are
addressed.
Boks 7.217 17 If our times are sterile in genius, we
must cheer us with
books of rich and believing men...
Clbs 7.226 16 Especially women use words that are not
words...but
reproduce the genius of that they speak of;...
Clbs 7.237 11 ...the Table-Talk of Coleridge is one of
the best remains of
his genius.
Cour 7.268 15 There is a courage in the treatment of
every art by a master
in architecture...in painting or in poetry, each cheering the mind of
the
spectator or receiver as by true strokes of genius...
Cour 7.268 17 There is a courage in the treatment of
every art by a master
in architecture...in painting or in poetry...which yet nowise implies
the
presence of physical valor in the artist. This is the courage of
genius, in
every kind.
Cour 7.272 16 The charm of the best courages is that
they are...flashes of
genius.
Cour 7.272 19 The best act of the marvellous genius of
Greece was its first
act;...
Cour 7.272 26 The statue, the architecture, were the
later and inferior
creation of the same [Greek] genius.
Suc 7.303 5 ...genius is measured by its skill in this
science [of sensibility].
Suc 7.308 20 I think that some so-called sacred
subjects must be treated
with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish
art to
be right pictures for houses and churches.
PI 8.12 16 Genius thus [through figurative speech]
makes the transfer from
one part of Nature to a remote part...
PI 8.14 3 ...[a new symbol] will last a hundred years.
Then comes a new
genius, and brings another.
PI 8.17 19 The term genius, when used with emphasis,
implies
imagination;...
PI 8.22 6 Genius certifies its entire possession of its
thought, by translating
it into a fact which perfectly represents it...
PI 8.27 16 William Blake, whose abnormal genius,
Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or
of Byron, writes thus...
PI 8.34 12 The...measure of poetic genius is the power
to read the poetry of
affairs...
PI 8.43 6 ...the fascination of genius for us is this
awful nearness to Nature'
s creations.
PI 8.47 14 ...human passion, seizing these
constitutional tunes, aims to fill
them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought,
believing...that for
every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists, though the odds are
immense against our finding it, and only genius can rightly say the
banns.
PI 8.59 25 The Crusades brought out the genius of
France...
PI 8.66 17 I count the genius of Swedenborg and
Wordsworth as the agents
of a reform in philosophy...
PI 8.69 18 Shakspeare could no doubt have been
disagreeable, had he less
genius...
PI 8.69 19 ...our English nature and genius has made us
the worst critics of
Goethe...
SA 8.94 15 ...[Madame de Stael] said...I would go five
hundred leagues to
talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
SA 8.97 13 ...I have seen a man of genius who made me
think that if other
men were like him cooperation were impossible.
Elo2 8.131 21 ...in the Elizabethan Age there was a
dramatic zymosis, when all the genius ran in that direction...
Res 8.138 4 A philosophy which...believes neither in
virtue nor in genius;... dispirits us;...
QO 8.190 18 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an
almost absolute
ascendant over their nearest companions.
QO 8.191 20 Genius borrows nobly.
QO 8.193 14 We admire that poetry which no man
wrote,-no poet less
than the genius of humanity itself...
QO 8.194 13 We are as much informed of a writer's
genius by what he
selects as by what he originates.
QO 8.200 19 Goethe frankly said, What would remain to
me if this art of
appropriation were derogatory to genius?
QO 8.203 2 He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by
natural talent.
QO 8.203 27 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can
we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of
petulance it flings its fire
into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the
street.
PC 8.210 12 Consider...what genius of science...the
railroad, the telegraph... have evoked!...
PC 8.214 7 ...if these [romantic European] works still
survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left
remains that certify a
height of genius in their several directions not since surpassed...
PC 8.215 18 As we find thus a certain equivalence in
the ages, there is also
an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
PC 8.218 7 If [a man] has a military genius...he is the
king's king.
PC 8.229 18 ...when we see creation we also begin to
create. Depth of
character, height of genius, can only find nourishment in this soil.
PC 8.229 19 The miracles of genius always rest on
profound convictions
which refuse to be analyzed.
PC 8.230 1 ...when the wit is surrendered to
intellectual truth, that is genius.
PC 8.234 9 ...when I...consider the sound material of
which the cultivated
class here is made up...and that the most distinguished by genius and
culture are in this class of benefactors,-I cannot distrust this great
knighthood of virtue...
PPo 8.238 10 All or nothing is the genius of Oriental
life.
PPo 8.239 8 The favor of the climate...allows to the
Eastern nations a
highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the
genius
of the Hindoos...
PPo 8.249 15 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a
groom, and heaven a
closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
This
boundless charter is the right of genius.
Insp 8.275 11 There is genius as well in virtue as in
intellect.
Insp 8.275 24 ...the wonderful juxtapositions,
parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were
all to him locked together as links of
a chain...
Insp 8.277 5 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of
the doctrine that
The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
Insp 8.279 10 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever
without some
mixture of madness...
Insp 8.282 12 ...after [Niebuhr's] genius for
interpreting history had failed
him for several years, this divination returned to him.
Insp 8.283 6 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes
his delight in this
skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and
Marlowes, or whoever else, should use the like genius in language to
sensual purpose...
Grts 8.304 1 ...follow the path your genius traces like
the galaxy of heaven
for you to walk in.
Grts 8.305 23 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any
kind but a man is born
who, as his genius opens, aims...to dedicate himself to that.
Grts 8.306 22 ...every mind has...a new direction of
its own, differencing
its genius and aim from every other mind;...
Grts 8.307 27 In morals this [individual bias] is
conscience; in intellect, genius;...
Grts 8.308 13 Montluc...says of...Andrew Doria, It
seemed as if the sea
stood in awe of this man. And a kindred genius, Nelson, said, I feel
that I
am fitter to do the action than to describe it.
Grts 8.312 5 With this respect to the bias of the
individual mind add...the
most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
Grts 8.314 20 When one of his favorite schemes missed,
[Napoleon] had
the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it
somewhere
else.
Grts 8.317 27 Goethe, in his correspondence with his
Grand Duke of
Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of
the Olympian genius.
Grts 8.318 8 The Greeks surpass all men till they face
the Romans, when
Roman character prevails over Greek genius.
Grts 8.318 13 ...there are always men who have a more
catholic genius...
Imtl 8.327 4 The most remarkable step in the religious
history of recent
ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg...
Imtl 8.327 24 Swedenborg had a vast genius...
Imtl 8.336 12 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of
Russia, call
together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish
and
furnish a palace of snow...
Dem1 10.7 9 ...in varieties of our own species where
organization seems to
predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the
same
feeling [of the similarity between man and animal];...
Dem1 10.12 25 In the hands of poets...nothing in the
line of [the occult
sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
Dem1 10.15 13 ...the faith in peculiar and alien power
takes another form in
the modern mind, much more resembling the ancient doctrine of the
guardian genius.
Dem1 10.16 14 [The young man] observes, with
pain...that his genius...is
no longer present and active.
Dem1 10.20 9 Dreams retain the infirmities of our
character. The good
genius may be there or not, our evil genius is sure to stay.
Dem1 10.20 10 Dreams retain the infirmities of our
character. The good
genius may be there or not, our evil genius is sure to stay.
Dem1 10.23 18 ...the main ambition and genius being
bestowed in one
direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's]
sphere will
follow.
Aris 10.48 27 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be
paid for a
superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager, an educated
slave; a
man of genius...
Aris 10.50 26 It is not sufficient that your work
follows your genius...
Aris 10.51 16 The day is darkened...when genius grows
idle and wanton...
Aris 10.53 14 The best feat of genius is to bring all
the varieties of talent
and culture into its audience;...
Aris 10.54 26 The manners of course must have that
depth and firmness of
tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man. I mean the
things
themselves shall be judges, and determine. In the presence of this
nobility
even genius must stand aside.
Aris 10.62 8 ...[the true man] is to know...that there
is a master grace and
dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which
utility and even genius must do homage.
Aris 10.62 23 ...the genius of the House of Commons,
its legitimate
expression, is a sneer.
Aris 10.64 24 Virtue and genius are always on the
direct way to the control
of the society in which they are found.
PerF 10.85 4 ...a military genius, instead of using
that to defend his
country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and
political
consideration;...
PerF 10.85 7 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of
debate, and says, I will
know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
Chr2 10.102 5 ...the perpetual supply of new genius
shocks us with thrills
of life...
Chr2 10.111 6 When the highest conceptions...are
imported, the nation... has not genius...
Chr2 10.113 20 ...whoever feels any love or skill for
ethical studies may
safely lay out all his strength and genius in working in that mine.
Edc1 10.137 12 The charm of life is this variety of
genius...
Edc1 10.138 4 ...we sacrifice the genius of the
pupil...to a neat and safe
uniformity...
Edc1 10.141 1 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a
little direction to
games, charades...
Edc1 10.146 25 Always genius seeks genius,
Edc1 10.150 3 The college was to be the nurse and home
of genius;...
Edc1 10.150 5 ...every young man...is a potential
genius;...
Edc1 10.150 16 ...the youth of genius are eccentric...
Edc1 10.153 3 [The teacher] cannot indulge his
genius...when his eye is
always on the clock...
Edc1 10.153 8 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in
personal relations with
young friends, when...twenty classes are to be dealt with before the
day is
done. Besides, how can he please himself with genius, and foster modest
virtue?
Supl 10.178 2 On the other hand,-and it is a good
illustration of the
difference of genius,-the European nations...understand the manufacture
of iron.
Supl 10.179 1 The Northern genius finds itself
singularly refreshed and
stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes
of
thinking...
Prch 10.234 5 Given the insight, [the deep observer]
will find as many
beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or
Shakspeare beheld.
MoL 10.244 5 The Hebrew nation compensated for the
insignificance of its
members and territory by its religious genius...
MoL 10.244 9 On the south and east shores of the
Mediterranean Mahomet
impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and
poetry of Arabia and Persia!
Schr 10.270 21 Genius is a poor man and has no house...
Schr 10.271 12 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in
genius...
Schr 10.271 16 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that
genius
and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
Schr 10.273 11 In our experiences, learning is not
learned, nor is genius
wise.
Schr 10.275 24 The descent of genius into talents is
part of the natural
order and history of the world.
Schr 10.276 24 ...I love talents and accomplishments;
the feet and hands of
genius.
Schr 10.279 9 Talent is commonly developed at the
expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for
genius...
Schr 10.280 13 When a man begins to dedicate himself to
a particular
function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
Plu 10.296 27 M. Leveque has given an exposition of
[Plutarch's] moral
philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes; and M. C. Martha, chapters
on
the genius of Marcus Aurelius, of Persius and Lucretius, in the same
journal;...
Plu 10.297 27 [Plutarch] had that universal sympathy
with genius which
makes all its victories his own;...
Plu 10.301 13 [Plutarch] gossips...of virtues and
genius;...
Plu 10.308 19 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to
commend himself to
men of public regards and ruling genius...
Plu 10.311 7 La Harpe said that Plutarch is the genius
the most naturally
moral that ever existed.
Plu 10.317 21 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of
Noble Commanders
is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch; but the
matter...is so agreeable to his taste and genius, that if he had found
it, he
would have adopted it.
LLNE 10.330 12 The popular religion of our fathers had
received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary
influence of Swedenborg;...then the powerful influence of the genius
and
character of Dr. Channing.
LLNE 10.330 23 The novelty of the learning lost nothing
in the skill and
genius of [Everett's] relation...
LLNE 10.331 1 There was an influence on the young
people from the
genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in
Athens.
LLNE 10.333 24 ...whatever [Everett] has quoted will be
remembered by
any who heard him, with inseparable association with his voice and
genius.
LLNE 10.334 14 ...not a sentence was written in
academic exercises...but
showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
LLNE 10.334 27 There was that finish about this person
[Everett]...which
distinguishes every piece of genius from the works of talent...
LLNE 10.335 4 ...works of genius in their first and
slightest form are still
wholes.
LLNE 10.335 22 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had
already made us
acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.
LLNE 10.349 17 Genius hitherto has been shamefully
misapplied, a mere
trifler.
LLNE 10.351 15 Poverty shall be abolished [by
Fourierism]; deformity, stupidity and crime shall be no more. Genius,
grace, art, shall abound...
LLNE 10.362 20 ...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed
and overfed by
whatever is exalted in genius...
LLNE 10.363 6 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle,
inward genius...
LLNE 10.363 17 There [at Brook Farm] too was Hawthorne,
with his cold
yet gentle genius...
LLNE 10.364 2 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook
Farm]...quite
unworthy of his genius.
LLNE 10.364 4 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could
recognize her
rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public
fancied
was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
LLNE 10.370 2 ...I am not less aware of that excellent
and increasing circle
of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius is not a
lucky
accident...
CSC 10.376 20 By no means the least value of this
[Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the
genius of Mr. Alcott...
MMEm 10.403 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep sympathy
with
genius.
MMEm 10.404 20 Destitution is the Muse of [Mary Moody
Emerson's] genius,-Destitution and Death.
MMEm 10.405 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] delighted...in
genius, in
manners.
MMEm 10.407 2 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson]
writes, in
finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to
as a
specimen of genius.
SlHr 10.445 13 [Samuel Hoar] was neither spiritualist
nor man of genius...
Thor 10.451 6 [Thoreau's] character exhibited
occasional traits drawn from
this [French] blood, in singular combination with a very strong Saxon
genius.
Thor 10.464 23 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other
world is all my art;...I
do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his
opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
Thor 10.465 2 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his
companion, and... could very well report his weight and calibre. And
this made the impression
of genius which his conversation sometimes gave.
Thor 10.466 5 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with
such entire love to
the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them
known and
interesting to all reading Americans...
Thor 10.472 20 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret
and genius few
others [than Thoreau] possessed;...
Thor 10.474 13 ...I know not any genius who so swiftly
inferred universal
law from the single fact [as did Thoreau].
Thor 10.475 22 ...[Thoreau] have not the poetic
temperament, he never
lacks the causal thought, showing that his genius was better than his
talent.
Thor 10.480 13 Had [Thoreau's] genius been only
contemplative, he had
been fitted to his life...
Carl 10.495 22 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is his moral
sense...
EWI 11.145 11 The civility of the world has reached
that pitch that [the
black race's] more moral genius is becoming indispensable...
EWI 11.147 15 The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to
liberty; the
enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent
with
slavery.
FSLC 11.209 18 Nothing is impracticable to this nation,
which it shall set
itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed? Their
power of territory seconded by a genius equal to every work.
FSLC 11.209 26 The genius of this people, it is found,
can do anything
which can be done by men.
FSLC 11.211 5 Europe, the least of all the continents,
has almost
monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
FSLN 11.223 25 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had
been proportioned to
the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his
genius
and beneficent power?
FSLN 11.225 16 ...it is the genius and temper of the
man which decides
whether he will stand for right or for might.
FSLN 11.228 24 There was an old fugitive law, but it
had become, or was
fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative.
TPar 11.292 7 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be
consoled in the
transfer of your genius...
EPro 11.315 5 These [poetic acts] are the jets of
thought into affairs, when, roused by danger or inspired by genius, the
political leaders of the day
break the else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...
EPro 11.315 12 Every step in the history of political
liberty...has the
interest of genius...
ALin 11.337 27 [Providence]...creates the man for the
time, trains him in
poverty, inspires his genius, and arms him for his task.
SMC 11.351 15 ...whatever good grows to the country out
of war, the
largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on
clothing
this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
EdAd 11.385 4 Where [in America] are the works of the
imagination,-the
surest test of a national genius?
EdAd 11.385 5 At least as far as the purpose and genius
of America is yet
reported in any book, it is a sterility and no genius.
EdAd 11.385 7 At least as far as the purpose and genius
of America is yet
reported in any book, it is a sterility and no genius.
EdAd 11.389 26 ...men of a solid genius are only
interested in substantial
things.
Koss 11.399 6 ...you [Kossuth] are elected by God and
your genius to the
task.
Wom 11.409 22 [Women's] genius delights in
ceremonies...
Wom 11.411 11 ...how should we better measure the gulf
between the best
intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American
capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms,
and the
eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of
taste or
comeliness? Herein woman is the prime genius and ordainer.
Wom 11.415 24 ...another important step [for Woman] was
made by the
doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific
exposition
of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...
RBur 11.441 7 [Burns] is an exceptional genius.
RBur 11.442 15 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a
Doric dialect of
fame. It is the only example in history of a language made classic by
the
genius of a single man.
RBur 11.442 17 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to
draw from the
bottom of society the strength of its speech...
Shak1 11.446 1 England's genius filled all measure/ Of
heart and soul, of
strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger
than
before;/...
Shak1 11.447 18 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful
disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose
American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a
bank, has
not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,-
pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with
us.
Shak1 11.448 10 Genius is the consoler of our mortal
condition...
Shak1 11.449 6 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius which,
in upoetic ages, keeps poetry in honor...
Shak1 11.449 10 [Shakespeare's] genius has reacted on
himself
Shak1 11.449 20 ...we pause expectant before the genius
of Shakspeare-
as if his biography were not yet written;...
Shak1 11.449 25 I see, among the lovers of this
catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper
knowledge invites me to
hazard an article of my literary creed;...
Scot 11.463 13 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial
anniversary of his
birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...by the exceptional debt which
all
English-speaking men have gladly owed to his character and genius.
Scot 11.465 11 The tone of strength in Waverley...was
more than justified
by the superior genius of the following romances...
Scot 11.467 4 With such a fortune and such a genius, we
should look to see
what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott]...
Scot 11.467 13 [Humor] is a genius itself...
CPL 11.500 10 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man of
genius...
FRep 11.511 15 The manufacturers rely on turbines of
hydraulic
perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius...
FRep 11.535 21 I not only see a career at home for more
genius than we
have...
FRep 11.539 5 Here is the post where the patriot should
plant himself; here
the altar...where genius should kindle its fires...
FRep 11.540 2 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in
usefulness...let these
wonders work...for justice, genius and the public good.
FRep 11.541 14 The genius of the country has marked out
our true
policy,-opportunity.
PLT 12.6 6 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts,
they exist also as
plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature,
which
makes it what it is.
PLT 12.10 9 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which
all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every
way forwarded. Practical
men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be
done,-the
availing ourselves of every impulse of genius...
PLT 12.17 5 ...I believe...that the genius of man is a
continuation of the
power that made him...
PLT 12.22 18 Is it not a little startling to see with
what genius some people
take to hunting...
PLT 12.22 19 Is it not a little startling to see...with
what genius some
people fish...
PLT 12.25 19 The commonest remark, if the man could
only extend it a
little, would make him a genius;...
PLT 12.26 24 ...no wine, music or exhilarating
aids...avail at all to resist
the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull;...
PLT 12.26 25 ...no wine, music or exhilarating
aids...avail at all to resist
the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull; there is no
genius.
PLT 12.37 7 In its lower function, when it deals with
the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the
performance of all that is needful
to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and
connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men, and
the
want of which the rare and brilliant sallies of irregular genius cannot
excuse.
PLT 12.39 16 ...this is the measure of all intellectual
power among men... the power of genius to hurl a new individual into
the world.
PLT 12.42 18 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the
laws of the world...
PLT 12.43 4 I owe to genius always the same debt, of
lifting the curtain
from the common...
PLT 12.43 20 Genius is not a lazy angel contemplating
itself and things.
PLT 12.46 13 To a great genius there must be a great
will.
PLT 12.53 7 I must think...this thrill of awe with
which we watch the
performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like
power.
PLT 12.54 22 ...[a man's] genius leads him one way, but
't is likely his
trade or politics in quite another.
PLT 12.56 20 There are two theories of life;... One is
activity... The other is
trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular. They
are in
perpetual balance and strife. One is talent, the other genius.
PLT 12.56 22 We are continually tempted to sacrifice
genius to talent...
PLT 12.57 9 ...society seems to be in conspiracy
to...pull down genius to
lucrative talent.
PLT 12.57 13 Wide is the gulf between genius and
talent.
PLT 12.61 20 If the first rule is to obey your genius,
in the second place the
good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
II 12.69 9 The whole art of man has been...to provoke,
to extort speech
from the drowsy genius.
II 12.70 4 Who knows not the insufficiency of our
forces, the solstice of
genius?
II 12.70 21 ...genius is as weary of [Inspiration's]
personality as others are...
II 12.71 16 How incomparable beyond all price seems to
us a new poem... or true work of literary genius!
II 12.75 15 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and
were you never so
vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly
give your
vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the
children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
II 12.77 2 We call genius...divine;...
II 12.82 13 [A man] is strong by his genius...
II 12.82 23 [A man] is strong by his genius...
II 12.83 1 Whilst [a man] serves his genius, he works
when he stands, when
he sits, when he eats and when he sleeps.
II 12.87 11 As the whole has its law, so each
individual has his genius.
II 12.87 12 Obedience to its genius...is the particular
of faith;...
II 12.87 21 ...astronomy, chemistry, keep their word.
Morals and the genius
of humanity will also.
II 12.88 11 The old Greek was respectable...who found
the genius of
tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
Mem 12.95 25 Quintilian reckoned [memory] the measure
of genius.
Mem 12.100 5 ...defect of memory is not always want of
genius.
Mem 12.100 6 [Defect of memory] is sometimes owing to
excellence of
genius.
Mem 12.101 2 ...what familiarity has been acquired with
the genius of the
language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the
sentence.
CInt 12.112 6 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when
they sing,/ And now
I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of
genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the
universe/
From God's adoring lover./
CInt 12.114 13 When the war came to his own city,
[Michaelangelo] lent
his genius...
CInt 12.118 1 ...genius may be known by its probity.
CInt 12.120 1 ...I value [talent] more...when the
talent is...subject to
genius...
CInt 12.120 13 In Demosthenes is this realism of
genius.
CInt 12.123 22 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more
is the mischief and
misleading, so that presently all is wrong, talent is mistaken for
genius...
CInt 12.124 11 ...there is a certain shyness of
genius...in colleges...
CInt 12.124 23 The necessity of a mechanical system [of
education] is not
to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some
available
plan that will give weekly and annual results; and a little violence
must be
done to private genius to accomplish this.
CInt 12.124 24 ...genius is always its own law...
CInt 12.124 27 ...of necessity, a certain hostility and
jealousy of genius
grows up in the masters of routine...
CInt 12.125 3 ...unless...the professor has a generous
sympathy with
genius...that will happen which has happened so often, that the best
scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an
orphan therein.
CInt 12.126 25 ...here [in the college], if nowhere
else in the world, genius
should find its home;...
CInt 12.128 9 Now if there be genius in the
scholar...he is made to find his
own way.
CInt 12.129 23 Bring the insight, and [the deep
observer] will find as many
beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as
Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
Bost 12.184 22 Even at this day men are to be found
superstitious enough
to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special
powers
attach, and an exalted influence on the genius of man.
Bost 12.193 27 In our own age we are learning to look,
as on chivalry, at
the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St.
Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
Bost 12.197 26 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that
refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit
of
Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty
welcome in Great Britain.
Bost 12.208 18 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her
real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind...
Bost 12.210 4 [Boston's] genius will write the laws and
her historians
record the fate of nations.
MAng1 12.215 14 Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to
the highest
class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
MAng1 12.216 17 Beauty...comprehending grandeur as a
part, and
reaching to goodness as its soul,-this to receive and this to impart,
was [Michelangelo's] genius.
MAng1 12.223 9 The love of beauty which never passes
beyond outline
and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers of
[Michelangelo's] genius.
MAng1 12.227 21 ...not only was this discoverer of
Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of
practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the
most industrious men
that ever lived.
MAng1 12.228 15 I have found, says [Michelangelo's]
friend, some of his
designs in Florence, where, whilst may be seen the greatness of his
genius, it may also be known that when he wished to take Minerva from
the head of
Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
MAng1 12.231 1 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for
architecture it is sufficient
to say that he built Saint Peter's...
MAng1 12.240 9 [Vittoria Colonna] was...an admirer of
[Michelangelo's] genius...
MAng1 12.244 2 The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius
of Italy draws
to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce]...
Milt1 12.247 5 For a short time the literary journals
were filled with
disquisitions on [Milton's] genius;...
Milt1 12.247 13 ...the new-found book having in itself
less attraction than
any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly
subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or
to such
increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius...
Milt1 12.250 8 The lover of [Milton's] genius will
always regret that he
should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not have taken
counsel of his own lofty heart at this, as at other times...
Milt1 12.252 21 We think we have seen and heard
criticism upon [Milton'
s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the
recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...more
welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his
genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.
Milt1 12.252 23 We think we have heard the recitation
of [Milton's] verses
by genius which found in them that which itself would say;...
Milt1 12.255 19 The genius of France has not...yet
culminated in any one
head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to
entitle it to
any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
Milt1 12.257 15 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton]
pronounced the letter R
very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
Milt1 12.259 2 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been
celebrated for their
compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed
no marks of sublimity or genius.
Milt1 12.262 17 [Milton] is rightly dear to mankind,
because in him, among so many perverse and partial men of genius,-in
him humanity
rights itself;...
Milt1 12.266 5 To this antique heroism, Milton added
the genius of the
Christian sanctity.
Milt1 12.270 18 ...once in the History, and once again
in the Reason of
Church Government, [Milton] has recorded his judgment of the English
genius.
Milt1 12.274 22 The perception we have attributed to
Milton, of a purer
ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.
Milt1 12.276 20 ...the genius and office of Milton were
different [from
those of Homer and Shakespeare]...
ACri 12.281 3 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple
words succeeds,/ For
still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./
ACri 12.288 11 ...some men swear with genius.
ACri 12.304 12 The classic draws its rule from the
genius of that which it
does, and not from by-ends.
ACri 12.305 9 A man of genius or a work of love or
beauty will not come
to order...
MLit 12.310 9 [Poems' light] is not in their
grammatical construction
which they give me. If I analyze the sentences, it eludes me, but is
the
genius and suggestion of the whole.
MLit 12.312 4 ...the prodigious growth and influence of
the genius of
Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact
of the
first importance.
MLit 12.312 7 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost
alone has called out
the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made
theirs
now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
MLit 12.312 14 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost
alone has called out
the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made
theirs
now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting
with
great energy on England and America. And thus...does an original genius
work and spread himself.
MLit 12.313 10 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the
need to recognize one
nature in all the variety of objects, which always characterizes a
genius of
the first order.
MLit 12.315 24 Would you know the genius of the writer?
Do not
enumerate his talents or his feats, but ask thyself, What spirit is he
of?
MLit 12.319 26 [Shelley]...shares with Richter,
Chateaubriand, Manzoni
and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite, which so labors for
expression
in their different genius.
MLit 12.320 13 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact
in modern
literature, when it is considered how hostile his genius at first
seemed to the
reigning taste...
MLit 12.322 1 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our
recollection the
name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man...
whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have
yet seen applied to them...
MLit 12.325 17 We are provoked with...the patronizing
air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and
performances of other
mortals...
MLit 12.328 16 ...let us honestly record our thought
upon the total worth
and influence of this genius [Goethe].
MLit 12.328 25 ...we may here set down by way of
comment of [Goethe's] genius the impressions recently awakened in us by
the story of Wilhelm
Meister.
MLit 12.329 14 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself]
The age, that can
damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is
deeply
one with the genius and history of all the centuries.
MLit 12.332 8 That Goethe had not a moral perception
proportionate to his
other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since,
lacking this, he...with divine endowments, drops by irreversible decree
into the common
history of genius.
MLit 12.332 13 [Goethe]...has declined the office
proffered to now and
then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer
of
the human mind.
MLit 12.333 6 ...every fine genius teaches us how to
blame himself.
WSL 12.338 14 Transfer these traits to a very elegant
and accomplished
mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor, who may
stand as a favorable impersonation of the genius of his countrymen at
the
present day.
WSL 12.343 22 Wherever genius or taste has
existed...[Landor's] interest is
sure to be commanded.
WSL 12.343 24 ...wherever freedom and justice are
threatened, which he
values as the element in which genius may work, [Landor's] interest is
sure
to be commanded.
WSL 12.344 1 ...beyond his delight in genius and his
love of individual and
civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the
appreciation of character.
WSL 12.347 9 [Landor's] Dialogue on the Epicurean
philosophy is a
theory of the genius of Epicurus.
WSL 12.347 14 [Landor] has illustrated the genius of
Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides.
WSL 12.348 16 [Landor] is too wilful, and never
abandons himself to his
genius.
EurB 12.367 22 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his
election between
assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth
and a
position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly
genius;...
EurB 12.373 19 [Bulwer] is not a genius...
EurB 12.376 27 ...a perception of beauty was the
equally indispensable
element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister], by which each
was
dignified and all were dignified; then each was to obey his genius to
the
length of abandonment.
EurB 12.377 15 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far
the most agreeable
and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are
the
readers and victims. Byron ruled for a time, but Vivian, with no tithe
of
Byron's genius, rules longer.
PPr 12.381 4 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the
vice [of the times] in false
and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and
insight. Like every work of genius, [Carlyle's Past and Present's]
great value is in
telling such simple truths.
PPr 12.383 8 ...the poet knows well that a little time
will do more than the
most puissant genius.
PPr 12.383 22 The poet cannot descend into the turbid
present without
injury to his rarest gifts. Hence that necessity of isolation which
genius has
always felt.
Let 12.394 25 By the slightest possible concert,
persevered in through four
or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be
formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.
They
believe that this society...would give their genius that inspiration
which it
seems to wait in vain.
Let 12.397 16 ...there is no chance for the aesthetic
village. Every one of
the villagers has committed his several blunder; his genius was good,
his
stars consenting, but he was a marplot.
Let 12.400 16 It is heartrending to see your [German]
poet, your artist, and
all who still revere genius...
Let 12.401 12 On earth all is imperfect! is an old
proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these
God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life
is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise
genius...
Let 12.401 15 Where a people honors genius in its
artists, there breathes
like an atmosphere a universal soul...
Trag 12.412 12 To this architectural stability of the
human form, the Greek
genius added an ideal beauty...
Trag 12.412 22 All that life demands of us through the
greater part of the
day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands. Society asks this, and
truth, and
love, and the genius of our life.
Genius, n. (46)
MN 1.217 27 ...what is Genius but finer love...
MN 1.218 8 Genius is its own end...
MN 1.218 23 ...when Genius arrives, its speech is like
a river;...
MN 1.218 26 Genius sheds wisdom like perfume...
LT 1.287 15 ...we think the Genius of this Age more
philosophical than any
other has been...
Tran 1.357 23 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the
Genius then most when
his impulse is wildest;...
YA 1.371 24 ...the Genius or Destiny is not narrow, but
beneficent.
YA 1.372 3 That Genius has infused itself into nature.
YA 1.373 3 This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest
administration...
Fdsp 2.195 7 ...the Genius of my life being thus
social, the same affinity
will exert its energy on whomsoever is as noble as these men and
women...
Int 2.334 25 In the intellect constructive, which we
popularly designate by
the word Genius, we observe the same balance of two elements as in
intellect receptive.
Exp 3.45 7 ...the Genius which according to the old
belief stands at the
door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to drink, that we may
tell no
tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
Exp 3.46 1 Ah that our Genius were a little more of a
genius!
Exp 3.84 1 I say to the Genius...In for a mill, in for
a million.
Chr1 3.90 2 [Character] is conceived of as a certain
undemonstrable force, a Familiar or Genius...
Chr1 3.115 20 ...there are many [eyes] that can discern
Genius on his starry
track...
NER 3.271 18 What is it men love in Genius, but its
infinite hope...
NER 3.271 19 Genius counts all its miracles poor and
short.
SwM 4.140 1 Socrates's Genius did not advise him to act
or to find...
ShP 4.189 21 The Genius of our life is jealous of
individuals...
ShP 4.207 27 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...the
Genius draws up the ladder after him...
GoW 4.273 22 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe]
detected the Genius of
life...nestling close beside us...
F 6.1 14 ...the foresight that awaits/ Is the same
Genius that creates./
DL 7.132 19 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his
labor, his good and
bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact
demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
QO 8.201 13 To all that can be said of the
preponderance of the Past, the
single word Genius is a sufficient reply.
QO 8.201 16 The profound apprehension of the Present is
Genius...
QO 8.201 17 Genius believes its faintest presentiment
against the testimony
of all history;...
QO 8.201 23 Genius is in the first instance,
sensibility...
Aris 10.43 15 Genius is health and Beauty is health and
Virtue is health.
Aris 10.52 18 Genius, what is so called in
strictness...has a royal right in all
possessions and privileges...
Aris 10.52 27 ...Genius unlocks for all men the chains
of use, temperament
and drudgery...
PerF 10.76 17 We define Genius to be a sensibility to
all the impressions of
the outer world...
Edc1 10.144 17 Here are the two capital facts [of
education], Genius and
Drill.
SovE 10.185 17 ...in the voice of Genius I hear
invariably the moral tone...
Schr 10.269 26 What the Genius whispered [the poet] at
night he reported
to the young men at dawn.
Schr 10.284 26 These questions [of life] speak to
Genius...
Schr 10.285 1 These questions [of life] speak...to
Genius, which is an
emanation of that it tells of;...
Schr 10.285 14 ...Genius has no taste for weaving
sand...
Schr 10.285 18 Genius has truth and clings to it...
Schr 10.285 23 Genius delights only in statements which
are themselves
true...
Schr 10.288 26 [The scholar] is here to know the secret
of Genius;...
ALin 11.337 10 The ancients believed in a serene and
beautiful Genius
which rules in the affairs of nations;...
FRep 11.537 10 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is
no log or sluggard...
II 12.84 6 This determination of Genius in each is so
strong that, if it were
not guarded with powerful checks, it would have made society
impossible.
CInt 12.127 22 ...I thought a college was a place not
to train talents...but to
adorn Genius...
MLit 12.335 16 What...shall hinder the Genius of the
time from speaking
its thought?
Genius of Eternity, n. (1)
MMEm 10.424 2 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on
thy hoary
throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting
institutions? When thy trophies and thy name and all its wizard forms
be lost in the
Genius of Eternity?
Genius of Life, n. (1)
SS 7.8 26 ...the dearest friends are separated by
impassable gulfs. The
cooperation...is put upon us by the Genius of Life...
Genius of the Hour, n. (1)
Art1 2.352 18 The Genius of the Hour sets his
ineffaceable seal on the
work [of art]...
geniuses, n. (22)
Chr1 3.92 8 There are geniuses in trade, as well as in
war, or the State, or
letters;...
NR 3.227 23 It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot
do anything useful...
NR 3.237 20 [Nature] would never get anything done, if
she suffered
Admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses.
UGM 4.34 14 Once [our teachers] were angels of
knowledge, and their
figures touched the sky. Then we drew near, saw their means, culture
and
limits; and they yielded their place to other geniuses.
PPh 4.43 11 Great geniuses have the shortest
biographies.
SwM 4.105 12 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or
other of whom had
introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of
the
difficulty...of proving originality...
SwM 4.124 11 That slow but commanding influence which
[Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must
be excessive also...
MoS 4.174 4 The dull pray; the geniuses are light
mockers.
ShP 4.193 13 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged
or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim
copyright in this
work of numbers.
GoW 4.288 17 All the geniuses are usually so
ill-assorted and sickly that
one is ever wishing them somewhere else.
ET12 5.212 12 Universities are of course hostile to
geniuses...
Ill 6.316 26 I, who have all my life...read poems and
miscellaneous books, conversed with many geniuses, am still the victim
of any new page;...
SS 7.6 27 We have known many fine geniuses with that
imperfection that
they cannot do anything useful...
Insp 8.295 18 ...read...fact-books, which all geniuses
prize as raw material...
Edc1 10.150 11 Appetite and indolence [young men] have,
but no
enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college: few geniuses...
SovE 10.208 23 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of
the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
Schr 10.276 20 How many young geniuses we have known,
and none but
ourselves will ever hear of them for want in them of a little talent!
MMEm 10.403 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] liked to notice that
the greatest
geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence.
MMEm 10.430 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that
the greatest
geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts
and
sciences.
EWI 11.136 27 All the great geniuses of the British
senate...ranged
themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
Shak1 11.452 18 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal
proportions, dwarfs
the geniuses of Elizabeth...
Milt1 12.275 27 It is true of Homer and
Shakspeare...that those prodigious
geniuses did cast themselves so totally into their song that their
individuality vanishes...
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