 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pagine
...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 - 498 pagine
...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 - 420 pagine
...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 - 408 pagine
...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 - 334 pagine
...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 - 656 pagine
...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... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pagine
...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 - 394 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1814 - 780 pagine
...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 - 568 pagine
...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. 
