 | Truths - 1885 - 572 páginas
...only now and then, when their Suns are shining full upon them. iOrmilD. — Swift. WHEN a true Genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,...that the Dunces are all in confederacy against him. ifirmus'. — Sir J. Reynolds. plENIUS is supposed to be a power of producing \J excellencies which... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1889 - 378 páginas
...which he vindicated his claims to consideration by quoting these words of Swift: " When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in conspiracy against him." The cruel rejection of his play, which had so painfully lacerated his feelings,... | |
 | James Hay - 1891 - 390 páginas
...go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. SIGN OF GENIUS. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. SPONTANEITY OF GENIUS. Flowers of wit ought to spring, as those in a garden do, from their own root... | |
 | 1891 - 556 páginas
...screens, And fools on fools still ask,— what Hamlet means? Bulwer. SIGN OF A. When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against Mm. Swifl. TBÜE. So strong a wit did nature to him frame, As all things by his judgment overcame ;... | |
 | 1893 - 386 páginas
...with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign,...to disorder and discompose, but few to please them. Tis unwise to punish cowards with ignominy; for if they had regarded that they 1These thoughts are... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 páginas
...Wurdr, A true-bred merchant is the best gentleman in the nation. Defoe. A true genius may be known by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Swift. 5 A true man hates no one, A"a/W<ew/. A truly great genius will be the first to prescribe umits... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...Coleridge, There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. — Seneca. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces «re all m confederacy against him. — Sioift. Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 páginas
...with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,...to disorder and discompose, but few to please them. 'Tis unwise to punish cowards with ignominy ; for if they had regarded that, they would not have been... | |
 | 1897 - 308 páginas
...deprived of kindred minds and born amongst savages, savages had died. — Col ton. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign — that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him. —Swift. The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 páginas
...opinions he had contracted in the former." " When a true genius appears in the world, you may kno%v him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." " The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets,... | |
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
