 | George Briggs Starkweather - 1925 - 544 pages
...And Pope, who needs no introduction, thus stated what I feel is not strictly in accord with facts : "One science only will one genius fit ; so vast is art, so narrow human wit." "Universal genius" savors of exaggeration; yet we can all recall those who were brilliant in varied... | |
 | Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee - 1927 - 558 pages
...expense of surface. There is more psychological truth than poetical fancy in Pope's well-known lines — "One science only will one genius fit : So vast is art, so narrow human wit.* Whilst this seems to be almost all that we can do, our efforts in this direction in order to be effective,... | |
 | 1912 - 524 pages
...Committee of Year Book of Columbia University Architectural Society (3) ; Massier of the McKim Atelier (2). "One science only will one genius fit. So vast is art, so narrow human wit." JOHN LATENSER. JR. Omaha, Neb. University of Nebraska 1906-1908; Freshman Dinner Committee (I); Architectural... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
...which they have done so much. Alexander Pope may have noticed this matter ironically when he wrote : One science only will one genius fit So vast is art, so narrow human wit. For he well knew that this was the formula for the Tower of Babel. At any rate, with the Gutenberg... | |
 | 1926 - 964 pages
...quite sure that art is so important as muddle-headedness — which, I hope, redeems me a little. Said Pope : One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. So much vaster still, it may be added, is the world of immortality, and that is Blake's world. Yet,... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - 1983 - 248 pages
...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." Pope In The Self and... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. Windsor Fiirc.»i 98 One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. An Essay on Criticism part I, line 60 99 Order is Heaven's first law. -•tii F.nny on Man IV, line... | |
 | Gregory Benford - 2009 - 628 pages
..."Ah, but then, we would make it so in any case, yes?" He sprang to his feet. "One of my best couplets: One science only will one genius fit So vast is art, so narrow human wit." "So we cannot know we are free? The Creator makes us so!" "I would wish for that Creator, now." Joan... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet, the angel Raphael, in Paradise Lost, bk. 8, I. 72-84(1667). 1 1 One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ALEXANDER POPE, (1688-1744) British satirical poet. "An Essay on Criticism," I. 60-1 (1711). 12 Science... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 pages
...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. (52-63) Rather than... | |
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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. 
