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Leigh Hunt
Rossini, in music, is the genius of sheer animal spirits. It is a species as inferior to that of Mozart, as the cleverness of a smart boy is to that of a man of sentiment; but it is genius nevertheless.

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  • Leigh Hunt, "Going to the Play Again", The Companion (1828) p. 14.