Word: genius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most characteristic, which most deepen and widen the mind, which quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon the imagination-it is precisely those which are untranslatable, nay, which are so in exact proportion as they are masterly. This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this instantly with any translation of Shakespeare even into German, the language which has the nearest affinities of blood with our own. A translation can enable us to form a just enough...
...Urquhart's of Rabelais, for instance, but it is almost impossible that any foreigner should acquire that perfect intimacy with the niceties of a language which is essential to the thorough comprehension of an author and especially a poet. Both Tieck and Schlegal have mined very deep in the genius of Shakespeare, of his power and art they were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give us instead: "Here on this bench and school of Time," and defend...
give our powers to the spirit of Christ. If we try to do this for ourselves, Christ's thought, love, purpose, and genius will reproduce themselves in us. His resurrection is the eternal assertion of the human being over the animal...
...University will unite in the sentiment expressed by Mr. Irving that yesterday will long be memorable. The double opportunity in a single day of contact with the noblest man and the first genius of the stage is likely never to be given again. Delightful and inspiring were the words Mr. Irving was so kind as to use in regard to the day's events, and delightful and inspiring they certainly were...
...some scraps of the lectures to which his classes had the exceptional privilege of listening. Brief and fragmentary as they are, they yet exhibit in their small compass the breadth of mind and the wise reflection which were among the most marked traits of his nature, traits in which genius and character were united in rare combination...