 | George Gore - 1878 - 694 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Charles De Berard Mills - 1882 - 262 pàgines
...the floor is uneven.t 243He dug up the foundation to finish the roof. Persian (Current Mjxim r) * " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." 244. They burn a camel through a blanket.* 245Not to have loved is never to have been blessed. 246.... | |
 | Henry William Lovett Hime - 1882 - 142 pàgines
...the other by powerful vulgarity ' (Fergusson, p. 1 50). There is much truth in Pope's lines : — ' 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.' But, replies Herr... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 pàgines
...original with Pope, but the manner in which they arc expressed is his. The following are examples: " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow humau wit." " A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring."... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1883 - 424 pàgines
...since St. Paul's day ; how much in the comparatively brief period since Pope wrote the lines — " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." But suppose it possible for one man to master all sciences and to be an adept in all acts, to be able... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 502 pàgines
...these Qualities at the same time in a very great degree? What follows is more wrong and more absurd : One Science only will one Genius fit So vast is Art, so narrow Human Wit. Is not this a rare Pretender to Poetry and Criticism, who talks at this rate, when all the World knows... | |
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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. 
