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...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, so narrow human wit ; Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft m those confined to single parti." Imperfect as the scale...

...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, so narrow human wit; Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts." Imperfect as the scale...

...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...

...classical Latin. To all this it will be objected, Jin lunga,vita brecit; •• One science only does one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." And it. is true that one science ought to engross your attention chiefly, arid that all other studies should...

...desert. 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...

...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...

...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,...

...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, so narrow human wit ; Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts : Like kings we lose...