 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagina’s
...nature's end of language is declined, And men talk only to conceal their mind.* Satire vii. Line 97. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.f Lines Written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord Chesterfield. Accept a miracle, instead of wit,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1859 - 376 pagina’s
...strain. 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 tortur-'d texts to speak our sense are made. And every vice is to the scripture laid. How misers... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pagina’s
...COMMENTATORS.— Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell How scieace dwindles, and how eolumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. YOUNG. — Love of Fame, Sat. VII. Line 05. COMMON. — As common as a barber's chair. COMMON. —... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1865 - 280 pagina’s
...unequivocal testimony, in behalf of himself and Lord Lyndhurst, of their adherence to Revelation. So commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. No commentator can more slyly pass O'er a learned unintelligible place* YOUNG. POPE. they do not skip... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pagina’s
...thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Satire vii. Line 55. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.* Satire vii. Line 97. The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1866 - 574 pagina’s
...strain. 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pagina’s
...lost their sense, their learning to display, And those explained the meaning quite away. Pope. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. Young, Love of Fame, vn. 97. Oh ! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pagina’s
...thousands, takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Satire vii. Line 55. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.* Satire vii. Line 07. The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 pagina’s
...bushel. [Unrevealed merit or skill.] Lucernam adhtbes in meridie. — You use a lantern at noonday. " How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. YOUNG." See " Solem adjuvdre." * Umbra, " a shadow," literally, but used also in the sense of " a guest's... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1870 - 360 pagina’s
...diamonds write on glass, obscuring light with scratches," and of some othen it may be said, — " How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun !" the student will be thankful that so much learning and piety have been in all ages brought to the... | |
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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. 
