 | 1876 - 634 pages
...of this " very doctor. " This triple conquest is impossible; the very effort is fraught with danger. "One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit , Like kings we lose the conquests gained before, By vain ambition still to make them more. " MISCELLANEOUS.... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...gain, When fame applauds, thou hearest not the strain. MUlhouse. 1456. GENIUS : limited in its range. abour'd with his being's strife, Shrinks to that sweet forgetfulness of l : Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before % vain ambition still to make them more. — Pope.... | |
 | Edgar Dyke Whitmarsh - 1877 - 620 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...own. DRYUEN. To your glad genius sacrifice this day; Let common meats respectfully give way. 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 :... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 696 pages
...IV. ACTUAL WORKING IN ORIGINAL RESEARCH. CHAPTER XXXVIII. SELECTION OF A SUBJECT OK INVESTIGATION. 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. POPE, ' Essay on Criticism.'... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 694 pages
...IV. ACTUAL WORKING IN ORIGINAL RESEARCH. CHAPTER XXXVIII. SELECTION OF A SUBJECT OF INVESTIGATION. 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. POPE, ' Essay on Criticism.'... | |
 | 1879 - 314 pages
...existence new specialties and intensified old ones until no person can be proficient in all of them. " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." 86 The claim of the Line Officer, to know sufficient of all of these professions to enable him to assume... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1879 - 430 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 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,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1872 - 360 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,... | |
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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. 
