 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...play* ' The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit: Not only 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1749 - 110 pages
...imagination > The memory's foft figures melt away, One fcience only will one genius fit ; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit : Not only 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | Christopher Smart - College students' writings, English - 1751 - 448 pages
...following lines of Mr. POPE are true. *' One fcience only will one genius fit ; " So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit: " Not only bounded to peculiar arts, " But oft in thofe confin'd to Jingle parts. CHIMJERICUS CANTABRIGIENSIS. To the STUDENT. Dear Sir, THE following... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...eminently diftinguifhed this philofopher. 6. One fcience only will one genius fit ; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit. • * Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in thofe confin'd to fingle parts, f — When Tully attempted poetry, he became as ridiculous as Bolingbroke... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...eminently diftinguimed this philofopher. 6. One fcience only will one genius fit ; So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit. — — Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in thofe confin'd to fingle parts f. WHEN Tully attempted poetry, he became as ridiculous as Bolingbroke... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 378 pages
...play, The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit ; 60 So vail is art, fo narrow human wit : 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... | |
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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. 
