 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...underftanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play* ' The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit: Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe confin'd to fingle parts. Like Kings we loofe... | |
 | Benjamin Martin - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1737 - 720 pages
...to a perfeft Maflery in one Art or Faculty at moft, and fometimes we may come fhort of that: Since One Science only will one Genius fit, So vaft is Art, fo narrow human Wil \ Not only bounded to peculiar Arts, But oft in thofe confin'd to fingle Parts. IN order then to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1749 - 110 pages
...exercifc of that powWhere beams of warm imagination > The memory's foft figures melt away, One fcience only will one genius fit ; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe confin'd to fingle part Like Kings we lofe the... | |
 | Christopher Smart - College students' writings, English - 1751 - 448 pages
...fufficient to employ all your time, efpecially jf the following lines of Mr. POPE are true. *' One fcience only will one genius fit ; " So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit: " Not only bounded to peculiar arts, " But oft in thofe confin'd to Jingle parts. CHIMJERICUS CANTABRIGIENSIS.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...comprehenfion, and knowledge of man, which fo eminently diftinguifhed this philofopher. 6. One fcience only will one genius fit ; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit. • * Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in thofe confin'd to fingle parts, f — When Tully... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1756 - 720 pages
...ftrong) was he not a greater prodigy, in all refpects, than any of thofe we have mentioned ? One icience only will one genius fit: So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit. Upon this hypothefis our Critic gives a pleafing detail of authors and painters, who when they attempted... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...comprehenfion, and knowledge of man, which fo eminently diftinguimed this philofopher. 6. One fcience only will one genius fit ; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit. — — Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in thofe confin'd to fingle parts f. WHEN Tully... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...fails ; *' Where beams of warm imagination play, " The memory's foft figure? melt away. " One icience only will one genius fit ; " So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit." The poetry as well as the philofophy of this paflage, can fcarcely be too much admired. How chafte... | |
 | William Boutcher - Forests and forestry - 1778 - 328 pages
...to thofe indifcreet men who launch. beyond their depth, may with propriety be applied: " One fcience only will one genius fit ; " So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit : . " Not only bounded to peculiar arts, ** But oft' in thofe confin'd to fmgle parts." I. HAVE therefore... | |
 | William Boutcher - 1778 - 334 pages
...to thofe indifcreet men who launch beyond their depth, may with propriety be applied: " One fcience only will one genius fit; " So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit: " Not only bounded to peculiar arts, " But oft' in thofe confin'd to fingle parts." • I HAVE therefore... | |
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One fcience only will one genius fit; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit: Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe confin'd to fingle parts. 
