Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Andrew P. Peabody writes the preface for this book. He says it is "rodolent of genius, wit and poetic inspiration." Professor Charles Eliot Norton said of the first volume published in 1876, "Consule Planco," as Thackeray would say, which means, when Mr. Quincy was president. "I don't think we wrote on the average such good verses as these." All who have seen the selections for the forthcoming volume, consider that it is as far superior to the first volume as the University of to-day has outgrown the University of twenty years ago. The dedication is "To the founders...
...Mater, the two most famous of her living sons should thus lend their aid in celebrating the natal day? We are at a loss when we attempt adequately to praise the address, because it seems to us that nothing ore appropriate could have been written, nothing worthier of the genius of the author. A great occasion needed a great composition, and the skillful pen of the master has here traced words that will add much to the lustre of an already fair and shining reputation. Jewels of thought some of native gold, some chosen from that intellectual wealth gained little...
...beginning of the 18th century came the struggle about church discipline. There was a bursting open of the tight compact body of technical sainthood. Increase Mather, the great exponent of the genius and nature out of which the college sprang, published on the 1st of March, 1700, his "Order of the Gospel Justified." "Sundry ministers of the Gospel in New England" answered him. The question was who should be counted true subjects of the Christian sacraments. When Increase Mather, with his son Cotton was defeated, it was a sign that the earnestness which existed in human life at-large...
...startling one. What is to be the true result? The answer may perhaps be found in the words of a rude but hard-headed friend who said to me. "Under the present system, I shall expect a graduate of Harvard to be either a d - fool or a genius...
...that has ever been written, we find it hard to see. On the contrary, we think that young poets should have encouragement, not discouragement. If poetry is worth writing at all, it is worth the attention of amateurs. True, "poets are born," but they are born with the poetic genius, not with the poetic art. The genius needs the art for its perfection, and the art needs experience, if it is to aid the genius at all successfully. Moreover, the matter of genius aside, as long as poems by young writers are readable, and, as they often are even very...