 | Sylvester Genin - 1855 - 308 страници
...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... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 страници
...difficulties enough will attend him, and Pope's erroneous stanza will be to him an apparent truth : — < One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human nit.' And if he be allowed to discover, by his own perception, from the works of artists, as much as... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 страници
...expiring gain, When fame applauds, thou hearest not the strain. Robert Mulhouse to Genius. One seienee only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Pope's Essay on Critieism. Talents angel-bright, If wanting worth, are shining instruments, In false... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 страници
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 страници
...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 the... | |
 | 1856 - 606 страници
...the Apostles bent their undivided attention. Excellence in any thing is gained by this means. If " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." What can be done in soul-saving work, if the attention be divided ? No small part of the want of success... | |
 | 1856 - 754 страници
...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.1 At first I feH such an attachment to astronomy, that I resolved to confine my views to the study... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 страници
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 940 страници
...Schott, of Nashville, Tennessee, makes the screw-clamp, at five dollars. SPECIALTIES AND SPECIALISTS. 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 mare. The word... | |
 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1861 - 314 страници
...unable to determine what direction I should take. The sciences lay before me. I had learned that " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." I discovered a charm in each, but, unable to embrace them all, hesitated in making a selection. " At... | |
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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. 
