 | John Watts - 1865 - 206 sider
...Owen Meredith sings in the two lines which are notable in his last poem in the CornhiU Magazine — 4 Talk not of genius baffled, genius is master of man, Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.' " Mr. Southwell had also a generous nature, which had no meanness and no... | |
 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1866 - 348 sider
...failure from over-stress Of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man....Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Blot out my name, that the spirits of Shakespeare and Milton and Burns Look not down on the praises... | |
 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1868 - 530 sider
...failure from over-stress Of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man....Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. Blot out my name, that the spirits of Shakespeare and Milton and Burns Look not down on the praises... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1868 - 664 sider
...did not trade upon his sorrows. That is a true saying of Owen Meredith's, ' Genius is greater than man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.' I quote from memory. Byron's was genius — the real fire; the supernatural force that is given to... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1868 - 336 sider
...did not trade upon his sorrows. That is a true saying of Owen Meredith's, ' Genius is greater than man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.' I quote from memory. Byron's was genius — the real fire ; the supernatural force that is given to... | |
 | Nellie (fict.name.) - 1870 - 126 sider
...him up in play-time in certain subjects in which he was deficient. Owen Meredith says somewhere, " Talk not of genius baffled, genius is master of man : Genius does what it must, talent does what it can." And each day Mr. Seymour learned to appreciate the truth of the passage.... | |
 | John Stuart Colquhoun - 1871 - 264 sider
...plete sentence, which has no grammatical con- Rnie x. nection with the following sentences ; as, " Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man....does what it must ; and talent does what it can." — 0. MEREDITH. A full stop is also used after abbreviations ; as, MS., MP, FR8., etc., verbum sap.,... | |
 | Julia Crouch - 1871 - 404 sider
...position ; it bursts all bonds, overcomes all prejudices, and mounts to the very summit of success. " Talk not of genius baffled, genius is master of man....Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can." Yet the men and women of talent are they who bear the world along nearer and nearer perfection ; men... | |
 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Earl of Lytton - 1875 - 430 sider
...failure from over-stress Of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success. Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man....Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. Blot out my name, that the spirits of Shakespeare and Milton and Burns Look not down on the praises... | |
 | 1875 - 190 sider
...insignificant. It was the motive power of Genius that urged them on ; and Genius knows no hesitation, " Talk not of Genius baffled ! Genius is master of man, Genius does what it must — Talent what it can ! " Vain though they are — peurile though they be — they are at least honest.... | |
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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. 
