There is a genius loci.

"From the low earth aspiring genius springs, And sails triumphant born on eagles wings.

It was Niccola Pisano, architect and sculptor, who first breathed with the breath of genius life into the dead forms of plastic art.

And lure to cherish intellectual powers, To bid the vig'rous tides of genius roll, Unfold, in fair expansion, fancy's flowers, And wake the latent energies of soul; Far other homage claims than flatt'ry brings The little triumphs of the proud to grace: For deeds like these a purer incense springs, Warm from the swelling heart its source we trace!

It may be justly said of this great man, what a celebrated poet now living has applied to Archbishop Laud, Around his tomb did art and genius weep, Beauty, wit, piety, and bravery, were undissembled mourners.

but were there one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate, for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,

But the educated public is no sooner set right in this, than the honor which is due to genius degenerates; just as the honor which the faithful pay to their saints easily passes into a frivolous worship of relics.

"Let no unfriended son of genius despair," exclaims Carlyle.

Both these departments of genius figure largely in the poetry and classics of the institution, with which the reading million of America have been familiar from youth up.

O might a transient spark of genius fire The fond effusions of her fearful youth; Then should thy virtues live upon her lyre, And give to harmony the charm of truth.

ARCHBSH'OP OF GRANA'DA told his secretary, Gil Blas, when he hired him, "Whenever thou shalt perceive my pen smack of old age and my genius flag, don't fail to advertise me of it, for I don't trust to my own judgment, which may be seduced by self-love."

Man and beast are in their lair, and unearthly things alone seem stirring;the good genius glides with a holy and hallowing influence through the tranquil dwelling of virtue; the demon grins and gibbers in the deserted but reeking chambers of the vicious.

By his writings Rousseau acted more powerfully upon posterity than upon his own times: his personality had ceased to do his genius injustice.

Let genius invent, scholars pursue its discoveries!

The compensation I have mentioned as the privilege of genius lies, not in what it is to others, but in what it is to itself.

Mohammed, who was represented to the public in turn as deceiver, as a genius mislead by the Devil, as epileptic, as hysteric, and as prophet, was obliged later on even to submit to playing on the one hand the part of socialist and, on the other hand, that of a defender of capitalism.

"A Star has set," said the orator, "and the eye of this century will close before it rises again, for bright genius moves in wide orbits and our distant descendants will be first again to bid glad welcome to that from which their fathers have taken sad leave.

We shall now take a view of Swift in his moral life, the distinction he has obtained in the literary world having rendered all illustrations of his genius needless.

About the quality of his genius opinions may, will, and ought to differ.

Artists of genius taught the schools more than they learned of them; and these artists, so far as I can learn, have left no trace of theoretical works, but, as before written, genius precedes and exemplifies law.

But they are out of our field: genius predicates at least an intact brain.

It was a reckless thing to do, to make another such giant stride before the world had caught up with his first, and he had to suffer the consequences; but genius disregards prudence, and looks to the future alone.

Though genius rebels at our moralities, it always submits itself to beauty.

One spark of genius shoots through it, and its elements rush together and glitter before us in a single translucent drop.

Now the Prussian Junker, blind with fury, Claims to be God's counsel, judge and jury, While the authentic German genius slumbers, Cast into the limbo of back numbers.