| British anthology - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genins 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 conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still... | |
| 1826 - 82 Seiten
...caesura of the last line but one. EXAMPLE. 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 conquests gained before, By vain ambition still... | |
| 1827 - 496 Seiten
...works according to their respective merits. " 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." Imperfect as the scale may be, we shall make the attempt at something... | |
| William M'Nab - 1830 - 56 Seiten
...to admit, that we hae tint the gate o't. " One scienee only will one genins 6t; So vast is art, so narrow human wit, Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts." I have sometimes heard men say, they were equally expert at every... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...water was esteemed among the Romans.' One science only will one genius fit ; 60 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 conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 Seiten
...The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit ; €0 So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confmed to single parts. Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before?. By vain ambition still... | |
| 1836 - 362 Seiten
...force, in the caesura of the last line but one. 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 conquests gained before, By vain ambition still... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...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 conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 Seiten
...profession. Men cannot serve two masters ; — " 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 the conquests gained before, By vain ambition still... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...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 conquests gain'd before, By vain ambition still... | |
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