 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 páginas
...it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life,... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 páginas
...own wings. Ibid. THE eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow. Ibid. WHEN a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Swift, III, 395. GENIUS is at first shy and... | |
 | Jacques Barzun - 1982 - 456 páginas
...list presented by the musicians of the Institute to the full body, thus confirming Swift's dictum that "when a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Berlioz withdrew his name and Onslow was... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Marshall William Fishwick - 1983 - 332 páginas
...similar pattern although the epigraph to the novel supplies a clue or perhaps an ironic misdirection. "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." (Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects,... | |
 | John Kennedy Toole - 2007 - 414 páginas
...ISBN 0-8021-3020-8 (pbk.) Grove Press 841 Broadway New York, NY 10003 04 05 06 07 40 39 38 37 36 35 When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift — "THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS,... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 páginas
...Georg Christoph Lichtenberg There is no great gen us without a touch of madness. — Seneca the Younger When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift Genius is one percent... | |
 | Calhoun Winton - 1993 - 236 páginas
...(iv.52-54). This is a Swiftian comment, resonating with one of that author's "Thoughts on Various Subjects": "When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this infallible Sign, that the Dunces are all in Confederacy against him."17 Jack Oaf fails to gain the... | |
 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 páginas
...GAMBLING Without danger the game grows cold. GENIUS Genius is only great patience. Count de Buffon When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift Everyone is a genius at least... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 páginas
...his claims, these suggestions were not welcomed by the medical establishment. Jonathan Swift said, "When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." If only it were so simple! For resistance... | |
 | H. J. Eysenck - 1995 - 360 páginas
...concept of 'psychoticism', which is fundamental to the theory here developed. The nature of genius When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift Popular concepts of genius... | |
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
