The idioms of Genius will always present obscurities to the uninformed; they are to be acquired, as a man learns to translate a dialect.


Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature (4th edition), Chapter XI (p. 53)


The idioms of Genius will always present obscurities to the uninformed; they are to be acquired, as a man learns to translate a dialect.

The idioms of Genius will always present obscurities to the uninformed; they are to be acquired, as a man learns to translate a dialect.

The idioms of Genius will always present obscurities to the uninformed; they are to be acquired, as a man learns to translate a dialect.

The idioms of Genius will always present obscurities to the uninformed; they are to be acquired, as a man learns to translate a dialect.