 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 400 lehte
...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 fingle parts. Like Kings, we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition Hill to make them more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 406 lehte
...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 confm'd to (ingle parts. Like Kings, we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition ftill to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 lehte
...warm imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit; 6a So vaft is art, fo narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thole confin'd to fingle parts. Like Kings, we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition ftill... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 lehte
...foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit; 60 So vaft is art, fo narrow human witi Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in thofe confin'd to fmgle parts. Like Kings, we lofe the conquefts gain'd before, By vain ambition ftill to make them more;... | |
 | James Beattie - 1783 - 862 lehte
...inftrumental fymphonies to all the three. There may be exceptions: but it is in general true, that One fcience only will one genius fit, So vaft is art,...bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in thofe confin'd to finglc parts. It is eafy to know, how far an author's tafte may be deficient in this refpect. If, while... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1789 - 636 lehte
...of Salisbury ; and Picar of Boldre in.NnoForc/l, near Lymlngton. London, Printed far Blamire, I 789. One fcience only will one genius fit, So vaft is art, fo narrow human wir. , Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in thofe conh'n'd to fingle parts. f This very fenfible... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 lehte
...of undtrflanJintji/ails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt away. One fcience only will one genius fit ; So vaft is...peculiar arts, But oft in thofe confin'd to Jingle parts. Like kings, we lofe the conqucfts gain'd before, By vain ambition dill to make them more : Each might... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 lehte
...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, 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 lehte
...of underftandmg fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt away. $ , oivjy bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in thole confin'd to fingle parts. Like Kings, we lofe the... | |
 | Edward Jones - 1794 - 208 lehte
...any longer compatible with thofe with which it had been connected, or with any other profeffion. " One fcience only will one genius fit ; " So vaft is...only bounded to peculiar arts, " But oft in thofe confm'd to fingle parts. — — Pope. According to a more minute arrangement, there were of regular... | |
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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. 
