...would seem as if the mind were absorbed in its own peculiar bias, and could not follow that of others. "One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." If Horace had attempted to paint, he probably would have verified the admirable description of the...

...in, and are compelled to admit, that we hae tint the gate o't. " One scienee only will one genins 6t; So vast is art, so narrow human wit, Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts." I have sometimes heard men say, they were equally expert at every thing;...

...Some have confined themselves to one or two branches of science, agreeably to the maxim of Pope, — " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." But this differs essentially from the opinion of Dr. Barrow : — " He will be a lame scholar," observes...

...there are certain talents, which are not always compatible. It has, indeed, been observed that — One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. But the Life of Edward Llwyd disproves the infallibility of the rule, since he was, in an eminent degree,...

...other regions, or been compelled thither- by adverse gales, we cannot tell; but, as the poet opines, " One Science only will one genius fit, So vast is Art; so narrow human wit." There are some few exceptions we know; but our contemporary's knowledge of Art and artists, is so superficial,...

...each, but was unable to embrace them all, and hesitated in making a selection I had learned that " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." " At first I felt such an attachment to astronomy, that I resolved to confine my views to the study...

...forbidding fire and water was esteemed among the Romans.' One science only will one genius fit ; 60 So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts. Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to...

...must adopt the falling inflexion with considerable force, in the caesura of the last line but one. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art,...Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts : Like kings we lose the conquests gained before, By vain ambition still to...

...imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit ; €0 So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confmed to single parts. Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before?. By vain ambition still to...

...warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. i One science only will one genius 6t ; 60 return the winds dispersed in air. Back to hie tent the stem Achilles flie>, on in those confined to single parts. Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before, I ' v vain ambition...