 | 1824 - Страниц: 262
...were not sufficiently capacious to contain more than their own peculiar object of study and regard. " One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Those ft ho would shelter their own insensibility by such examples, should be in other respects such... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - Страниц: 1062
...of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. t Kot only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts. Like kings, we lose the... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1825 - Страниц: 414
...the philosophers of Athens held their discourses under the wide spreading branches of the plane. " One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Pope. GENTEEL, PRETTY. Ro s E.—Poihpone. This compact, pretty little offspring of the provins rose,... | |
 | 1825 - Страниц: 262
...\vere not sufficiently capacious to contain more than their own peculiar object of study and regard. " One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Thus, as we have seen, has the Church of England made abundant provision for the solace and comfort... | |
 | 1825 - Страниц: 610
...among the benefactors of mankind. It has been said, and that by no contemptible authority, that — " One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human nil." Bat how true soever this couplet may be in its general application, Mr. Lowry stands as an exception... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - Страниц: 600
...understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One seienee rinted by Thomas Davison for Thomas Tegg : Not only bounded to peeuliar arts, But oft in those eonfin'd to single parts. Like kings we lose... | |
 | 1826 - Страниц: 82
...adopt the failing 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 confined to single parts ; Like kings we lose... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 500
...difficulty remains of arranging in each department the various works according to their respective merits. " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit ; Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft m those confined to single parti." Imperfect as the scale... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 496
...difficulty remains of arranging in each department the various works according to their respective merits. " 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." Imperfect as the scale... | |
 | 1828 - Страниц: 332
...would seem as if the mind were absorbed in its own peculiar bias, and could not follow that of others. "One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." If Horace had attempted to paint, he probably would have verified the admirable description of the... | |
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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. 
