 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 pagina’s
...one who lets them alone — may not too painfully illustrate, for the thousand and first time, " How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun." THE FORM. The various forms taken by the modern Essay under the hands of such masters as Lamb, De Quincey,... | |
 | Charles Eyre Pascoe - 1892 - 702 pagina’s
...profitable than in running haphazard in London, after this preacher and that, only to find — "How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun." When all else fails, we perhaps may be drawn into the competition with the average Sunday-sermon composer,... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1893 - 402 pagina’s
...thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. Pope. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. Young. And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to his mother's breast,... | |
 | William Henry Pinkney Phyfe - 1898 - 598 pagina’s
...therefore, that I shall not be held amenable to the criticism involved in Young's familiar couplet : " How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun." WlLLIAM HENRY P. PHYFE, NEW YORK, March 12, 1889. CONTENTS. PAG8 PREFACE 5 THE SOUNDS OF THE ENGLISH... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pagina’s
...authors damn'd have their revenge in this, — To see what wretches gain the praise they miss. YOUNG. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. YOUNG. One judges as the weather dictates, right The poem is at noon, and wrong at night; Another judges... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pagina’s
...b rushers of noblemen's clothes. c. Attributed to SIR HENRY WOTTON by BACON. Apothegms. No. 04. How agnalls 1 d. YOUNG — Lore of Fame. Satire VII. L.97. CRUELTY. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 290 pagina’s
...one who lets them alone — may not too painfully illustrate, for the thousand and first time, " How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun." THE FORM. The various forms taken by the modern Essay under the hands of such masters as Lamb, De Quincey,... | |
 | Morton W. Spencer - 1901 - 592 pagina’s
...to the good done by the numerous helps in Bible study it is sometimes true, as one has said : " How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun." The Anglo-Israelite's boast is, that he takes the Scriptures more as they read, since he has seen the... | |
 | 1902 - 784 pagina’s
...evidently borrowing from the former: The muse shall tell How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. Young— "Love of Fame." Satire VII. Line 95. Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pagina’s
...thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Satire CM. Line 55. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. Line 97. The man that makes a character makes foes. To Mr. Pope. Epistlv i. Line 28. Their feet through... | |
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How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the Sun. 
