...: Some future strain, in which 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. How tortured texts to speak our sense are made, And every vice is to the Scripture laid. How misers...

...sentiments and feelings of Warburton: and that we shall see no more of those petty commentators, who Each dark passage shun, - And hold their farthing candle to the sun. — YOUNG. But, see, Theobald is returning towards us, seemingly in an angry mood. Warb. Away! and...

...sentiments and feelings of Warburtoii: and that we shall see no more of those petty commentators, who Each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. — YOUNG. But, see, Theobald is returning towards us, seemingly in an angry mood. Warb. Away! and...

...next morning's gazette ; but if " Nob" is '' scarce," every respect is shown to his retirement " Thus commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun." But this is a hasty, if not an unfair conclusion. Slight reports only reach short distances ; but when...

...strain. Some future strain, in which the mnse shall tell How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. How tortur'd texts to speak our sense are made. And every vice is to the scripture laid. How misers...

...— " How tortured texts to speak their sense are made, And every vice is to the Scripture laid! How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!" The contrast between what our Lord taught and his apostles exemplified, and what their pretended successors...

...expatiating on those that require no explanation ; the sarcasm of Pope has often been repeated, — ' See commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun,' — — with diluting and attenuating the pure milk and solid gold of Scriptural truth, and with inducing...

...and the various Commentators. By George Poole, Esq. ' Quantum mut л t us ab ¡lio.' — Virgil. ' Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.' Young. " Third Edition. London : Printed for JM Richardson, No. 3, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange....

...Black forgive me for saying that this reminds rue of Young's sarcastic -lines — * How commentator* each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun " t ' JONATHAX BoUCHfER. ' ' The old port of Arbroath has long claimed to be the Fairport, its adjoining...

...Some future strain, in which 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 : How tortured texts to speak our sense are made, And every vice is to the scripture laid: How misers...