 | Francis Buchanan White White - 1872 - 330 pàgines
...advance in our task of taking a survey of the vast domain? And long before his day, the Poet wrote — " One Science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." •(•As reported in "Nature/' December ist, 1870, p. 90. % Thus, on the continent there are Journals,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pàgines
...with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.1 Part \. Line 9. One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Part i. Line 60. From vulgar hounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pàgines
...own. DRYDEN. 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 :... | |
 | Gideon Nye - 1875 - 138 pàgines
...arbitrary strictness of meaning, for whilst we recognize the geueral truth of the Poet's axiom : — " One Science only will one genius fit So vast is Art, so narrow human wit ": — We have as yet no Amphictyonic Council to decide with rigorous rule upon the merits of our performances,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pàgines
...with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.1 Part \. Line 9. One Science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Part \. Line 60. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of... | |
 | 1876 - 634 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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.'... | |
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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. 
