 | John Walker - 1801 - Počet stránok 424
...adopt the falling inflexion with considerable force in the caesura of the last line but one, EXAMPLE. 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... | |
 | 1805 - Počet stránok 498
...In painting he never arrived even to a degree of mediocrity ; so true is Mr. Pope's observation^ " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Fond however of being considered as a patron both of music and painting, he contributed to the advancement... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - Počet stránok 420
...acuteness, comprehension and knowledge of man, which so eminently distinguished this philosopher. 6. 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.-)When Tully attempted... | |
 | 1806 - Počet stránok 408
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - Počet stránok 334
...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'rl to single parts. • , Like kings we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Počet stránok 656
...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... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - Počet stránok 394
...adopt the falling inflection witi considerable force, in the caesura of the last line but one. EXAMPLE. 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... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - Počet stránok 314
...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... | |
 | 1814 - Počet stránok 780
...forward any observation or comments in your Magazine, you may probably hear from me again. CLERICUS. " 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, coiifiii'd to single parts." POPE. Mr. UKBAH,... | |
 | 1814 - Počet stránok 568
...philosophy, if they had not confined their studies to those objects. Rightly therefore the bard, " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." We are also told in the Scriptures, " that no man can serve two masters," and that " we cannot serve... | |
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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. 
