...of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. 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 confin'd to single parts. Like kings we lose...

...worthy aspirations. He says: "The sciences lay before me; there were charms in each, but I had learned 'One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow Irtimsn wit.' For astronomy I was deficient in arithmetic; history required time and books which I...

...And waste its sweetuess on the desert air. GRAY. — Elegy, Verse 14. GENIUS. — One science ouly will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. POPE. — On Criticism, Part I. Line 80. Genius must be born, and never can be taught. DRYDEN. —...

...division of labour and a strict limitation of it to special subjects we assist in the general result. "One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Research as distinguished from invention, or the application of knowledge previously acquired, is surrounded...

...such royal guests. Human nature is too great to be made perfect, all parts of it, in a single man ; " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." As, analytically speaking, genius is power of instinctive intuition, and power of conscious reflection,...

...with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.* Part i. Line 9, One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Part i. Line 60. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Part i. Line 153. Pride, the never failing...

...of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. 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 confin'd to single parts. Like kings we lose...

...of understanding feils: Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away_ 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...

...wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught. Dryden, to Congreve, on the Double Dealer-. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more. Pope,...

...to address the young artist in the language or through the medium of another branch of education. " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Rembrandt for instance, a very cardinal in art, had " no turn for scholarship/' but showed great expertness...