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Sentences starting with genius

Genius has given you the freedom of the universe, why then come within any walls? [6]
Genius is willing to lay the foundations of her structure unobserved. [9]
Genius is sure of itself, and statesmen are born, not made. [9]
Genius defies the laws of perspective and looms larger as it recedes. [5]
Genius has an infinitely deeper reverence for character than character can have for genius. [6]
Genius does not herd with genius. [6]
Genius does not come unprepared, and is rarely caught napping. [9]

Sentences ending with genius

Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
A celebrated poet who read the letters to the Guardian--at Miss Lucretia Penniman's request--has declared Mr. Wetherell to have been a genius. [9]
A good caricature, which seizes the prominent features and gives them the character Nature hinted, but did not fully carry out, is a work of genius. [6]
You may laugh, weep, reason, sing, sneer, or pray, according to your genius. [6]
Others might have wealth and beauty, he thought to himself, but what were these to the gift of genius? [6]
How Mr. Jason was to be rewarded by the land company's left-hand, unknown, to the land company's right hand, became a problem worthy of a genius. [9]
The great artist undervalued his genius. [4]
He obtained praise too easily, and learned to trust too much to his genius. [6]
But I have this consolation: that dull as I was, I always knew enough to be proud when she commended me or my work --as proud as if Livy had done it herself--and I took it as the accolade from the hand of genius. [5]
I am afraid there are some who have no natural turn for it, as there are persons without an ear for music, to which, if I remember right, I heard one of you comparing what you called religious genius. [6]

Short sentences using genius

Lord Roberts, her military genius. [5]
Was he a genius? [11]
You may have genius. [6]
Really, she's a genius! [5]
That is genius. [6]
What is genius? [2]
Genius, 127. [6]

Sentences containing genius two or more times

She is always ready to welcome the first sign of genius, or of talent which approaches genius. [6]
Tempest is a literary genius by what he has done, and she is a genius by nature, and with so much left undone. [11]
What you want is some man who can have patience with mediocrity putting on the style of genius, and with genius turning mediocrity on his hands. [8]
There's no genius in it, though my father comes as near being a genius as any man alive. [11]
If to be a genius is to possess an infinite stock of patience, Mr. Hopper was a genius. [9]

More example sentences with the word genius in them

Denzil belongs to you, because you helped to save him years ago; the Catholic Archbishop belongs to you, because he's got brains and a love of literature and art; Barode Barouche belongs to you, because he's almost a genius too. [11]
It should be worth ten times the other, and the world called the other the work of a genius, dog. [11]
I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo--that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture--great in every thing he undertook. [5]
But, still, the works which his great and untiring hand had already thoroughly finished will remain to attest his learning and genius, --a precious and perpetual possession for his country. [6]
The exhibition of works of genius will slowly instruct and elevate the popular taste, and in time the cultivated popular taste will reject mediocrity and demand better things. [4]
Favorinus reproached him with overestimating the versatility of the Roman genius, like his friend Fronto, and underrating the Hellenic intellect. [10]
The mistake came when he introduced another genius into the intracacies of his daily life. [5]
Is this the way that genius is welcomed to the world of letters? [6]
A genius, he was, within an inch, a tragedy to the last button. [11]
I think it was in 1863 that some genius suggested that it be put upon the gold and silver coins which circulated among the rich. [5]
The thing he was going to do was hopelessly obvious, but the doing of it was Jean Jacques' own; and it was not obvious; and that perhaps was genius after all. [11]
Another said there was a vast fortune waiting for the genius who should invent a compass that would not be affected by the local influences of an iron ship. [5]
It was in virtue of this that his rare genius acted on so many minds as a trumpet call to awaken them to the meaning and the privileges of this earthly existence with all its infinite promise. [6]
She was the very genius of Fidelity; she was Steadfastness incarnated. [5]
But as the very essence of genius is truthfulness, contact with realities, (which are always ideas behind shows of form or language,) nothing is so contemptible as falsehood and pretence in its eyes. [6]
Talent is a very common family-trait; genius belongs rather to individuals;--just as you find one giant or one dwarf in a family, but rarely a whole brood of either. [6]
So abstruse and twisted were some of Mr. Douglas's doctrines that a genius alone might put them into simple words, for the common people. [9]
It is melancholy to think how many epic poets have been lost in the tea-trade, how many dramatists (though the age of the drama has passed) have wasted their genius in great mercantile and mechanical enterprises. [4]
From the ground to the top of the unfinished towers is one mass of rich stone-work, the creation of genius that hundreds of years ago knew no other way to write its poems than with the chisel. [4]
It is half-sister to the genius for music, and has some of the features which remind us of earthly love. [6]
It is needless to say that it was built by a Philadelphian--that is to say one born with a genius for hotel-keeping. [4]
Now I venture to say that any painter or sculptor of real genius, though he may do nothing more than paint flowers and fruit, or carve cameos, is considered a privileged person. [6]
It was necessary to say something for the poet's sake,--perhaps for Susan's; for she was in a certain sense responsible for the poems of a youth of genius, of whom she had spoken so often and so enthusiastically. [6]
I then applied to Mr. Wallace, who has an innate genius for solving difficulties. [1]
It needs genius to import into literature ordinary conversation, petty domestic details, and the commonplace and vulgar phases of life. [4]
It is not to his own age, but to those following, and especially to our own time, that we are to look for the shaping and enormous influence upon human life of the genius of this poet. [4]
There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice--the demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. [7]
The world seems to have become settled in the belief, long ago, that it is not possible for human genius to outdo this creation of da Vinci's. [5]
He wanted me to go out there and engineer that thing, but I said, No, Dilworthy, I must be on hand here,--both on Laura's account and the bill's--but you've no trifling genius for organization yourself, said I--and I was right. [5]
And too long to explain to a prejudiced audience, who can't be expected to comprehend the character of a genius, to understand the yearning of a famous man for a little quiet. [9]
This deliberate attempt to crush genius would inevitably react on itself. [9]
He was forced to confess to his revered parent, and his esteemed friend Susan Posey, that his genius, which was freely acknowledged, was not thought to be quite ripe as yet. [6]
Talent is often to be envied, and genius very commonly to be pitied. [6]
Keokuk, a long time ago, was an occasional loafing-place of that erratic genius, Henry Clay Dean. [5]
You are of those who do not need training or experience: you are a genius, whose chief characteristic is adaptability. [11]
I cut out this little piece about him from the paper on purpose to show you,--for genius loves genius,--and you would like to hear him read his own poetry,--he reads it beautifully. [6]
The readers of this great story-teller, who was so long in obtaining recognition, who "made twenty assaults upon fame and had forty books killed under him" before he achieved success, will find his genius fully appreciated and fairly weighed in this discriminating essay. [6]
The attention of this great scholar and influential man had been attracted by Brugsch's first Egyptological works, which he had commenced before he left school, and his keen eye recognized their value as well as the genius of their author. [10]
What should you think of the probable musical genius of a young man who was particularly fond of jingling a set of sleigh-bells? [6]
It is time these gentlemen were finding out that these execrable eccentricities of instinct and conduct are only the evidences of genius, not the creators of it. [5]
In short, if there were any virtuous human wish in the power of genius to gratify, Ferguson's was the place. [9]
Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? [7]
It was enchanted, then, by a genius that was under the command of King Solomon. [5]
But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity. [9]
The others had their reserves; they readily conceded that Alma had genius, but they were sure she needed instruction. [8]
In the turnpikes, the railways, the depots, and the new boulevards of uniform houses in Florence and other cities here, I see the genius of Louis Napoleon, or rather, I see the works of that statesman imitated. [5]
The party had the privilege of idling through this ancient quarter of New Orleans with the South's finest literary genius, the author of 'the Grandissimes. [5]
In this picture the presiding genius of the paper is offering to Mark Twain health, long life, and happiness from "The Punch Bowl. [5]
The importation into the novel of the vulgar, sordid, and ignoble in life is always unbearable, unless genius first fuses the raw material in its alembic. [4]
A genius by the name of Jethro Bass had for many years presided (in the room of the governor and council at the State House) at the political birth of justices of the Supreme Court. [9]
It required all the military genius of Caesar to conquer the fierce hostility which he encountered here. [10]
I know that the legal genius of Mr. Langmaid, one of my vestry, made possible the organization of the company, and thereby evaded the plain spirit of the law of the state. [9]
But scarcely was the ink dry on the receipts from his creditors when he was once more borne into the clouds on the prospect of millions, perhaps even billions, to be made from a marvelous carpet-pattern machine, the invention of Sczezepanik, an Austrian genius. [5]
The Greeks adopted the idea, but beautified it, using a winged Genius of death instead of a mummy. [10]
It was already the high noon of life with him before his genius had truly shown itself; if he had not lived beyond this period, he would have left nothing to give him a lasting name. [6]
The genius of the great portrait-painter may to some extent overcome the disadvantages of contemporary costume, but if the costume of his period is hideous and lacks the essential lines of beauty, his work is liable to need the apology of quaintness. [4]
And they defeated the genius Napoleon and, suddenly recognizing him as a brigand, sent him to the island of St. Helena. [2]
You talk of the fire of genius. [6]
If you have the consciousness of genius, do something to show it. [6]
He had genius, the college people said, and after he had taken his degree with honours in classics and mathematics they offered him a professorship at two thousand dollars a year. [11]
Facing her was the agent, the genius, the Man who had snatched her from that existence, who had at his command these delights to bestow. [9]
He early won the admiration of distinguished European thinkers and writers: Carlyle accepted his friendship and his disinterested services; Miss Martineau fully recognized his genius and sounded his praises; Miss Bremer fixed her sharp eyes on him and pronounced him "a noble man. [6]
Can it be that there is anything of more consequence in life than the great business in hand, which absorbs the vitality and genius of this age? [4]
It seems probable that the genial companionship of Agassiz, who united with his scientific genius, learning, and renown, most delightful social qualities, gave him a kinder feeling to men of science and their pursuits than he had entertained before that great master came among us. [6]
The actor maintained that Rachel had no genius as an actress. [6]
The genius of that porter was something wonderful. [5]
La Harpe said that 'Plutarch is the genius the most naturally moral that ever existed. [6]
And even at that period he foresaw, with the prophecy of genius, the days of single-track congestion. [9]
She would pay that much tribute to her own genius. [11]
Or is it that mere common men become great artists simply because the Genius selects them as his temple to dwell in? [10]
I appeal to that larger and more solemn public, who know how to look with tender humility at faults and errors; how to admire generously extraordinary genius, and how to reverence with warm, full hearts all noble virtue. [14]
This was evidence that he was no genius. [11]
Still less did that genius, Napoleon, know it, for no one issued any orders to him. [2]
The nature of that genius we shall see in his life. [4]
The counsels of that Genius seem to have prevailed. [7]
It is a temptation to a temperate man to become a sot, to hear what talent, what versatility, what genius, is almost always attributed to a moderately bright man who is habitually drunk. [4]
Didn't the admiral tell the story at the dinner we gave him of how this ex-convict and mutineer, by sheer genius, broke the power of the French at the critical moment and saved our fleet, though it was only three-fourths that of the French? [11]
Among men of talent there are plebeians as well as patricians; even genius, which is never vulgar, is sometimes unable to hide the vulgarity of the aims and ideas which it clothes with beauty without concealing their essential nature. [4]
Is it a sufficient account of the genius of Cervantes and Scott that they combined in their romances a representation of the higher and lower classes? [4]
Henderson had died suddenly in the midst of vast schemes which needed his genius to perfect. [4]
The more we study him, the more are we astonished at his multiform genius. [4]
It was a stroke of genius, the hounds, your honour! [11]
Lacking the feminine stimulus, his genius limped. [9]
But to those staid residents of Hampton who had thought themselves still to be living in the old New England tradition, he was the genius of an evil dream. [9]
Nothing shows the splendor and wisdom of her military genius like her instant comprehension of the size of the change which has come about, and her instant perception of the right and only right way to take advantage of it. [5]
Oriental: genius, 120; spirit in Emerson, 179. [6]
It may be so; but the form the genius shall take is always determined by the age in which it appears, and its expression is shaped by the environments. [4]
It is not so: the foolish trivial end, The inconsequent paltry Nothing--gone--gone all; The genius of the ageless Something spend Itself within this little earthly wall: The commonplace conception, that we reap Reward of drudge and ploughman--idle sleep! [11]
To me the situation was almost inexplicable; but the woman herself was inexplicable: at this moment the evil genius of us all, at that doing us all a kind of crude, superior justice. [11]
The sun was shining brightly, and a bird was singing in the court; but there was no other sign of life, nor anything to remind one of the profligate genius who was so long a guest here. [4]
The genius of Shakespeare lay in his power to so use the real and individual facts of life as to raise in the minds of his readers a broader and nobler conception of human life than they had conceived before. [4]
We select and set aside as literature that which is original, the product of what we call genius. [4]
Observant mind always sees problems everywhere--unresting military genius accustoms intelligence to all possible contingencies--'stand what I mean? [11]
But many people seem to like them, and I don't doubt it is as exciting to Gifted to write them as it is to a great genius to express itself in a poem. [6]
I not only see a career at home for more genius than we have, but for more than there is in the world. [6]
You writers go searching all round for materials, just as painters do, fit for your genius. [4]
Thiers, a Bonapartist, says that Napoleon's power was based on his virtue and genius. [2]
Why could not same good genius have sent me to the N. Y. [5]
Is there no room for a genius in our infant military establishment? [9]
Like De la Riviere, she perceived a strange combination of the gentleman and--something else; but, unlike him, she saw also a light in the face and eyes that might be genius, poetry, adventure. [11]

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