Word: genius
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appeared The Princess, which dealt with the nature of man and woman. In 1850 he published his In Memoriam, which can be compared to nothing else in poetry. It was not till 1875 that Tennyson appeared as a dramatic writer. Though he wrote a few good dramas, his genius was not dramatic. It was as a writer of studies in character and dialect that he especially excelled...
...that is in their power, in order to meet Yale as strongly as they can. They owe this to their class and to the whole university. Now the way to make a good nine is not to play some of the games for fun, hoping for a stroke of genius to carry them through the final game. Nothing but steady, earnest work can make a sure team...
...left with her "lame brat." She was the worst kind of woman to bring up such a child. He succeeded his father as Lord Byron in his eleventh year. In 1803 he met the Mary of his poems, whose marriage with another later saddened his life but inspired his genius...
...that he was the greatest expresser the world has ever seen. He remains to this time the world's greatest achievement. To adapt a phase of Sir Richard Stelle's, we may say, that to know Shakespeare is a liberal education - a revelation of truth. The magic of his genius will confer a blessing upon the young and old alike, and you will find in his works whatever you seek - provided you are searching for truth...
...great names in the literary history of the world. The same statements, however, are true of the lesser characters; - Scott, Burns, Gray, Wordsworth, Dickens, Thackeray and Jane Austen. The power of observation is the pre-eminent characteristic of them all. Sympathy and enthusiasm accompany all close observation and genius may be described as the labour of untiring observation. Nor is this power great in works of fiction only. In science Agassiz and Darwin were peculiarly gifted in this direction...