 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pagini
...works have still one foot of clay. Genius claims kindred with the very workings of Nature herself, so that a sunset shall seem like a quotation from Dante or Milton, and if Shakspeare be read in the very presence of the sea itself, his verses shall but seem nobler for the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pagini
...works have still one foot of clay. Genins claims kindred with the very workings of Nature herself, so that a sunset shall seem like a quotation from Dante or Hilton, and if Shakspeare be read in the very presence of the sea itself, his verses shall but seem... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pagini
...works have still one foot of clay. Genius claims kindred with the very workings of Nature herself, so that a sunset shall seem like a quotation from Dante or Milton, and if Shakspeare be read in the very presence of the sea itself, his verses shall but seem nobler for the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pagini
...works have still one foot of clay. Genius claims kindred with the very workings of Nature herself, so that a sunset shall seem like a quotation from Dante or Milton, and if Shakspeare be read in the very presence of the sea itself, his verses shall but seem nobler for the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 pagini
...works have still onn foot of clay. Genius claims kindred with the very workings of Nature herself, so that a sunset shall seem like a quotation from Dante or Milton, and if Shakspeare be read in the verv presence of the sea itself, his verses shall but seem nobler for the... | |
 | 1880 - 784 pagini
...distinction between genius and originality — and he says it pithily and well — " Talent sticks fast to the earth. Genius claims kindred with the very workings...the reason that all children are geniuses (though the contrive so soon to outgrow that dangerous quality), except that they never cross-examine themselves... | |
 | John Howard Raymond - 1881 - 1296 pagini
...works have still one foot of clay. Genius claims kindred with the very workings of Nature herself, so that a sunset shall seem like a quotation from Dante or Milton, and if Shakspeare be read in the very presence of the sea itself, his verses shall but seem nobler for the... | |
 | 1881 - 430 pagini
...distinction between genius and originality — and he says it pithily and well — "Talent sticksfastto the earth. Genius claims kindred with the very workings...they never cross-examine themselves on the subject? Tho moment that process begins, their speech loses its gift of unexpectedness, and they become as tediously... | |
 | James Albert Harrison - 1903 - 512 pagini
...works have still one foot of clay. Genius claims kindred with the very workings of Nature herself, so that a sunset shall seem like a quotation from Dante or Milton, and if Shakspeare be read in the very presence of the sea itself, his verses shall but seem nobler for the... | |
 | 1915 - 316 pagini
...kindred with the very workings of Nature herself, so that a sunset shall seem like a quotation from Dante and if Shakespeare be read in the very presence of the sea itself, his verses shall but seem nobler for the sublima criticism of ocean. Talent may make friends for itself,... | |
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Let talent writhe and contort itself as it may, it has no such magnetism. Larger of bone and sinew it may be, but the wings are wanting. Talent sticks fast to earth, and its most perfect works have still one foot of clay. Genius claims kindred with the... 
