 | 1828 - Страниц: 454
...We say this, without meaning any disparagement to Mr. Udc, upon the authority of Pope, who says, " One science only will one genius fit. So vast Is art — so narrow human wit." If Quin had now lived he would have idolized Mr. Ude, who could have provided him with dishes more... | |
 | 1834 - Страниц: 614
...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.' 20. SERIES, NO. 40. — VOL. IV. " At first I felt such an attachment to astronomy, that I resolved... | |
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - 1820 - Страниц: 138
...find a limit, but the range is never without • one. Science, it is said, is long ; life, short. " One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Cffisar is distinguished as a general ; Aristotle, as a phi'ier; Homer, as a poet; but neither Caesar,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Страниц: 276
...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 confined to single parts. Like kings we lose the... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - Страниц: 404
...adopt the falling inflection 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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1823 - Страниц: 762
...friendly air of that village -- " I am interrupted by visitors — more to-morrow. " Friday, Nov. 4. ' One science only will one genius fit, ' So vast is art, so narrow human wit.' " This couplet of Pope will prove to my infinitely dear little " sculptor, that I have now received... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - Страниц: 406
...adopt the falling inflexion with considerable force in the caesura of the last line but one. EXAMPLES. 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 ; M 2 Like kings,... | |
 | Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - Страниц: 434
...when he seeks to distinguish himself in several arts at the same time ; for, as Pope observes : — " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." The man of taste must, therefore, consider himself as a mere judge of beauty ; but he must always look... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - Страниц: 438
...to distinguish himself in several arts at the same time ; for, as Pope observes : — " One scieface only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." The man of taste must, therefore, consider himself as a mere judge of beauty ; but he must always look... | |
 | John Humphreys Parry - 1824 - Страниц: 462
...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,... | |
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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. 
