 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 sider
...warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit, fc So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arls, But oft' in those confin'd to single parts. Like kings we lose the conquests gaih'd before, By... | |
 | William Boutcher - 1778 - 334 sider
...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 in that refpect endeavoured to avail myfelf,... | |
 | William Boutcher - 1778 - 328 sider
...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 in that refpect endeavoured to avail myfelf, from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 sider
...play, The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit; 6a So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thole confin'd to fingle parts. Like Kings, we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition ftill... | |
 | James Beattie - 1783 - 862 sider
...exceptions: but it is in general true, that 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 finglc parts. It is eafy to know, how far an author's tafte may be deficient in this... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 sider
...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 Jingle parts. Like kings, we lofe the conqucfts gain'd before, By vain ambition dill... | |
 | Edward Jones - 1794 - 208 sider
...connected, or with any other profeffion. " 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 confm'd to fingle parts. — — Pope. According to a more minute arrangement, there were of... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 sider
...play, The memory's foft figures melt anay. One fciencc only will one genius fit ; 6* So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit: Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in th<,fe confin'd to fmgle parts* Like kings, we lofe the conquerb gain'd before, By vain ambition flill... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 sider
...csefura of the laft line but one. EXAMPLE. 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 (ingle parts ; . Like kings we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 sider
...adopt the falling inflexion with considerable force in the caesura of the last line but one, EXAMPLE. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art,...Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts ; Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before By vain ambition, still... | |
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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 confined to single parts. 
