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A genius has a first rate capacity but not enough to excel in so many directions. Cicero was a genius who failed as a poet; La Fontaine unrivalled as a fabulist found his opera hissed; Charles Lamb had the mortification to find himself among audience once, at a time when his play was being booed off the boards. The ruckus was so bad that he also joined with the rest lest he should be taken for the author. Lamb under the penname of Elia proved with his essays how patent his genius was. Where Cicero found his sure touch in oratory Addison was hopeless in it.
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