...adopt the failing inflection with considerable force, in the caesura of the last line but one. EXAMPLE. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art,...peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts ; Like kings we lose the conquests gained before, By vain ambition still to make them more ; Each might...

...difficulty remains of arranging in each department the various works according to their respective merits. " One science only will one genius fit. So vast is art,...arts, But oft in those confined to single parts." Imperfect as the scale may be, we shall make the attempt at something like a just classification, taking...

...difficulty remains of arranging in each department the various works according to their respective merits. " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art,...human wit ; Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft m those confined to single parti." Imperfect as the scale may be, we shall make the attempt at something...

...beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures me\V wwwj. ill ESSAY ON CRITICISM. Part I One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art,...so narrow human wit; . Not only bounded to peculiar arls, But oft in those coutin'd to single parts. J.ike kings we lose the conquestsgain'd before, -By...

...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...arts, But oft in those confined to single parts." I have sometimes heard men say, they were equally expert at every thing; but it is not an unfair rule,...

...figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; 60 So vast is art, so narrow human wit : NCI et seen too oft, famili.-ir with her face, We first endure, then p parte. Ijke kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before* By vain ambition still lo make them more :...

...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,...