 | 1847 - 526 pages
...and action, may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught. DRYDEN. 2. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more. POPE'S... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 confined to single parts. Like kings we lose... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1849 - 454 pages
...no aptitude for other portions of the same subject. As Pope expresses it in his Essay on Criticism : 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. (v. 60—63.) Such eminence... | |
 | John Sartain, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1851 - 504 pages
...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.' At first I felt such an attachment to astronomy, that I resolved to confine my views to the study of... | |
 | 1852 - 372 pages
...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.' At first I felt such an attachment to astronomy, that I resolved to confine my views to the study of... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 confined to single parts. Like kings we lose... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...understanding fails ; 55 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, 60 But oft in those, confined to single parts. Like kings, we... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...place, and action, may with pains be wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught. Dryden. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit: Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more. Pope, What... | |
 | Sylvester Genin - 1855 - 292 pages
...profession; so much, indeed that the author of the Essay on Man, is almost justified in saying that One science, only, will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. This might appear true, had not the Creator bestowed on us different faculties, fitted to different... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...use the falling inflection, with considerable force, at the ccesura of the penultimate line. Thus, " One science only — will one genius fit, So vast is art — so narrow human wit." EXERCISES ON FORCE. SUBDUED FORCE. There breathed no winds their crest to shake, Or wave their flags... | |
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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. 
