 | Michael Kelly, Theodore Edward Hook - 1826 - 418 pages
...compositions ; for the drafts of true genius, though they may not be honoured so soon as they come due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. This is an old maxim, and, I hope, a true one. He died March the 16th, in the thirty-third year of... | |
 | Watson Adams - 1834 - 290 pages
...converts, when that period which we so fondly anticipate shall arrive ; an era of universal illumination. The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity,...sure to Be paid with compound interest in the end. . Our Saviour divided force from reason, and let no man presume to join what God hath put asunder.... | |
 | Watson Adams - 1834 - 278 pages
...converts, when that period which we so fondly anticipate shall arrive ; an era of universal illumination. The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honoured BO soon aa they are due, ^-e sure to be paid with compound interest in the ewl. Our Saviour divided... | |
 | 1834 - 730 pages
...compositions ; for the drafts of true genius, though they may not be honoured so soon as they become due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. It is a singular coincidence, that three such great musical geniusses as Purcell, Mozart, and Storace,... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...SedgmckREWARDS OF GENIUS. — The drafts which true genhn draws upon posterity, although they may not alwayi be honoured so soon as they are due, are sure to be...efforts of his mind. He never alludes to these high pretensiuns but he appears to be animated by an eloquence which is at once both the plea and the proof... | |
 | 1841 - 346 pages
...injunction, " Be ye steadfast nd immovable, always abounding in the work of the -ord." REWARDS OF GENIUS. TRE drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as hey are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest, in the end. Milton's expressions... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
..." Bo ye steadfast and immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord." REWARDS OF GENIUS. TRE drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as .hey arc due, are sure to be paid with compound interest, in the end. Milton's expressions... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...Genius of extensive Knowledge lies. (KttttUS, — Cicero. ALL G-reat Men are in some degree Inspired. drafts which true Genius draws upon posterity, although...constitute some of the finest efforts of his mind. .— Lavater. 'THE proportion of Genius to the vulgar is like one to a million ; but Genius without... | |
 | George Brewster - 1858 - 464 pages
...sweet and touching strains ; What once I was I may not be ! — Adieu ! adieu ! my harp, to thee ! THE drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest, in the end. Milton's expressions,... | |
 | Julia Ann Tevis - 1878 - 504 pages
...against them. But the drafts which true genius draws upon the public, although they may not be honored as soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. "O girls," exclaimed a rosy-cheeked little gypsy, running against a knot of her companions, who stood... | |
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honoured so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest, in the end. 
