Le Génie, c'est la patience. Genius is only patience. 7 A. STEVENS' Study of the Life and Times of Mme. de Staël. Ch. III. P. 61. (Ed. 1881.) Le génie n'est qu'une plus grande aptitude à la patience. As narrated by HERAULT DE SÉCHELLES-Voyage à Montbar. P. 15, when speaking of a talk with BUFFON in 1785. (Not in BUFFON's works.) Genius means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble. CARLYLE-Frederick the Great. Bk. IV. Ch. III. Genius is a capacity for taking trouble. LESLIE STEPHEN. Genius is an intuitive talent for labor. JAN WALÆUS. 8 (See also HOPKINS) Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. BENJ. DISRAELI-Contarini Fleming. Pt. IV. Ch. 5. 9 Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. ISAAC D'ISRAELI Curiosities of Literature. Poverty of the Learned. 10 Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. ISAAC D'ISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. 11 To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imaginaton. ISAAC D'ISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. II. 12 Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. ISAAC D'ISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XII. 13 Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times. ISAAC D'ISRAELI-Literary Character of Men of Genius. Ch. XXV. 14 But genius must be born, and never can be taught. DRYDEN-Epistle X. To Congreve. L. 60. 15 When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. EMERSON-Method of Nature. 16 The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. EMERSON-Race. 17 Vivitur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to be a wicked player. FARQUHAR-Love and a Bottle. Epilogue written and spoken by JOSEPH HAYNES. The motto "Vivitur ingenio" appears to have been displayed in Drury Lane Theatre. (See also SPENSER) 18 He gives twice who gives quickly. Credited to PUBLIUS MIMUS by LANGIUS, in Polyanth. Noviss. P. 382. ERASMUS Adagia. P. 265, (Ed. 1579) quoting SENECA. Compare SENECA-De Beneficiis. II. 1. HOMER-Iliad. XVIII. 98. Title of epigram in a book entitled Joannis Owen, Oxeniensis Angli Epigrammatum. (1632) P. 148. Also in MANIPULUS SACER-Concionum Maralium, Collectus ex Voluminibus R. P. Hieremia Drexelii. (1644) EURIPIDES-Rhes. 333. AUSONIUS-Epigram. 83. 1. (Trans.) ALCIATUS-Emblemata. 162. |