 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 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. Like kings we lose... | |
 | 1863 - 858 pages
...worthy aspirations. He says: "The sciences lay before me; there were charms in each, but I had learned 'One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow Irtimsn wit.' For astronomy I was deficient in arithmetic; history required time and books which I... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...And waste its sweetuess on the desert air. GRAY. — Elegy, Verse 14. GENIUS. — One science ouly will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. POPE. — On Criticism, Part I. Line 80. Genius must be born, and never can be taught. DRYDEN. —... | |
 | 1887 - 716 pages
...division of labour and a strict limitation of it to special subjects we assist in the general result. "One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Research as distinguished from invention, or the application of knowledge previously acquired, is surrounded... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.* Part i. Line 9, One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Part i. Line 60. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Part i. Line 153. Pride, the never failing... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 446 pages
...such royal guests. Human nature is too great to be made perfect, all parts of it, in a single man ; " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." As, analytically speaking, genius is power of instinctive intuition, and power of conscious reflection,... | |
 | 1866 - 328 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. Like kings we lose... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...wrought, But genius must be born, and never can be taught. Dryden, to Congreve, on the Double Dealer-. 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...of understanding feils: 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... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 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'S... | |
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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. 
