genius

• His comment, at once so spontaneous and so apt, is a delightful touch of the Poet's art; and tells us that Shakespeare's judgment as well as his genius was at home in the secret of a perfect style; and that he understood, no man better, the essential poverty of —  Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
• That he should have retired from the exercise of his art while in the full flower of his genius is a perplexing fact. —  The Great Italian and French Composers
• But though this must be acknowledged, perhaps it will not necessarily follow that his genius was therefore superior. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
• And yet, neither Columbus, nor Washington, nor Lincoln was what we call a genius — a genius, that is, in the sense in which Shakespeare or Napoleon or Galileo was a genius. —  American Men of Action
• Lincoln was what we call a genius -- a genius, that is, in the sense in which Shakespeare or Napoleon or Galileo was a genius. —  American Men of Action

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