genius

• 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
• 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
• The characteristics, then of the genius are an immense capacity for sympathy and an immense surplus of power; sympathy, that he may know the needs of mankind power, that he may fashion those great organs of life by which the race may live and grow In the various chapters of his book, Collin analyzes in an illuminating way the life and work of Wergeland, Ibsen, and Bjřrnson as typical men of genius whose expansive sympathy gave them insight and understanding and whose indefatigable energy wrought in the light of their insight mighty psychic organs of cultural progress He comes then to Shakespeare as the genius par excellence. —  An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
• Irv was what you call a genius, a writer chap. —  The Lilac Girl
• Nor can we admit that the word genius or artistic genius, as distinct from the non-genius of the ordinary man, possesses more than a quantitative signification. —  Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic

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