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Universality of genius.-Limited notion of genius entertained by the ancients.-Opposite faculties act with diminished force.-Men of genius excel only in a single art.
The ancients addicted themselves to one species of composition; the tragic poet appears not to have entered into the province of comedy, nor, as far as we know, were their historian