 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 574 pages
...thing to have truth on our side, and another thing to wish to be on the side of truth." " Talent ia that which is in a man's power : genius is that in whose power a man ia." Louis IRVIHB. SUpUrtf. DON CARLOS, 1568. (7th S. ii. 286.) If MR. EDOCUHBE will get ' Gustave... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 840 pages
...that Justice COOLEY possessed genius, as that word is commonly understood and denned. Lowell wrote : "Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is." Nature, however, gave him more than ordinary talent, and an unusually clear and analytical mind. To... | |
 | Education - 1881 - 796 pages
...largely sobers us again. [ Pope. School houses are the republican line of fortification. — Horace Mann. Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power man is. — Lowell. Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the allegory of the tale of •Orpheus... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - English poetry - 1888 - 356 pages
...syllables, and "is" rhymes unexceptionably with "his." But is there the least filament of truth in it ? We venture to assert, not the least. It was not Rousseau's...power had nothing whatever to do with the affair. Kousseau had none of it ; Shakespeare had it in excess ; but what difference would it make in our judgment... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 288 pages
...divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlers. Emerson. Works and Days. Talent is that which is in a man's power ; genius is that in whose po\ver a man is. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 356. 6. A person having such mental power; a... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 474 pages
...syllables, and " is " rhymes unexceptionably with " his." But is there the least filament of truth in it? I venture to assert, not the least. It was not Rousseau's...The mimetic power had nothing whatever to do with tin.' affair. Rousseau had none of it ; Shakespeare had it in excess ; but what difference would it... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 416 pages
...syllables, and " is " rhymes unexceptionably with " his." But is there the least filament of truth in it? I venture to assert, not the least. It was not Rousseau's...in a man's power ; genius is that in whose power a 1/' man is. That is the very difference between them. We might turn the tables on Moore, the man of... | |
 | John Kennedy - English language - 1890 - 314 pages
...that could rouse, expand, re/ne the soul, Thither he went, and meditatecL there.— Pottok. (Byron.) Talent is that which is in a man's power ; genius is that in whose power a man is.— Lowell. Michael Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures, as gods walking, which make... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Poetry - 1892 - 376 pages
...unconsciously drives them to undertake. I say "drives them," and call to mind Lowell's acute distinction : " Talent is that which is in a man's power ; genius is that in whose power a man is." Carlyle's whole career proves that he simply wished to recognize the office laid upon genius of taking... | |
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Talent is that which is in a man's power ; genius is that in whose power a man is. 
