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. The Dublin Review - Page 304publié par - 1839Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...incidents, the sentiments trite, and the language turgid and bombast. The Biter of Rowe is wretched. Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those...to single parts. Like Kings we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more : 65 NOTES. Heemskirk and Teniers could not... | |
| John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...adopt the falling inflexion with considerable force in the caesura of the last line but one. EXAMPLES. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art,...arts, • But oft in those confin'd to single parts ; M 2 Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before By vain ambition, still to make them more ; Each... | |
| William Hayley - 1823 - 762 pages
...friendly air of that village -- " I am interrupted by visitors — more to-morrow. " Friday, Nov. 4. ' One science only will one genius fit, ' So vast is art, so narrow human wit.' " This couplet of Pope will prove to my infinitely dear little " sculptor, that I have now received... | |
| Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - 434 pages
...when he seeks to distinguish himself in several arts at the same time ; for, as Pope observes : — " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." The man of taste must, therefore, consider himself as a mere judge of beauty ; but he must always look... | |
| Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - 438 pages
...to distinguish himself in several arts at the same time ; for, as Pope observes : — " One scieface only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." The man of taste must, therefore, consider himself as a mere judge of beauty ; but he must always look... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...or an Abel Drugger. Warton. Neither the authority of the poet nor the efforts of the annotator can Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those...to single parts. Like Kings we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more : 65 Each might his sev'ral province well command,... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...Lear, or an Abel Drugger. Warton. Neither the authority of the poet nor the efforts of the annotator Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those...to single parts. Like Kings we lose the conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still to make them more: 65 Each might his sev'ral province well command,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. t Kot only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts. Like kings, we lose the... | |
| 1824 - 262 pages
...were not sufficiently capacious to contain more than their own peculiar object of study and regard. " One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Those ft ho would shelter their own insensibility by such examples, should be in other respects such... | |
| John Humphreys Parry - 1824 - 462 pages
...there are certain talents, which are not always compatible. It has, indeed, been observed that — One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. But the Life of Edward Llwyd disproves the infallibility of the rule, since he was, in an eminent degree,... | |
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