 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...of underftanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play* ' The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit; So vaft is art,...bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe confin'd to fingle parts. Like Kings we loofe the conquefts gain'd before,. By vain ambition ftill to make them... | |
 | Robert Morris - Architecture - 1734 - 298 pages
...learned Lumber in his Head, &c. And in another Part of the fame Eflay juftly concludes, One Science only, will one Genius fit, So vaft is Art, fo narrow human Wit. Such a one who has only the fuperficial Learning, may be calily known by his dwelling upon the Surface... | |
 | Benjamin Martin - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1737 - 720 pages
...perfeft Maflery in one Art or Faculty at moft, and fometimes we may come fhort of that: Since One Science only will one Genius fit, So vaft is Art, fo narrow human Wil \ Not only bounded to peculiar Arts, But oft in thofe confin'd to fingle Parts. IN order then to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1749 - 110 pages
...th« proper exercifc of that powWhere beams of warm imagination > The memory's foft figures melt away, One fcience only will one genius fit ; So vaft is...bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe confin'd to fingle part Like Kings we lofe the conquefts gain' By vain ambition ftill to make them a Each might... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...warm imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit ; 60 So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe confin'd to iIngle parts. Like Kings we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition dill to make them more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...warm imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit ; 60 So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thole confin'd to ilngle parts. Like Kings we lofe the conquclls gain'd before, By vain ambition fl... | |
 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit ; • 60 So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in thofe confm'd to fingle parts. Like kings, we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition ftill to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...power; the underftanding being rather paffive while the memory is cultivating. As to the other apK 2 Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe confin'd to fingle parts. Like Kings we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition ftill to make them more:... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...warm imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit ; 60 So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit: Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe connn'd to fingle parts. Like Kings we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition ilill to... | |
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in those confin'd to single parts. 
