 | William Henry Pinkney Phyfe - 1903 - 680 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." WILLIAM HENRY P. PHYFE. NEW YORK, March 12, 1889, The author of " 10,000 Words Often Mispronounced"... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pagina’s
...indeed. Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. In 1728 Young took holy orders, as that seemed to offer him the best inducement for a livelihood, and... | |
 | Alexander McKenzie - 1903 - 312 pagina’s
...enlarge or illustrate this power and effects of love is to set a candle in the sun." And Young: " How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun." Romeo turned from the sport saying: " For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase: I'll be a candle-holder... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pagina’s
...thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Satire rii. Line 53. 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. £piitte i. Line 28. Their feet through... | |
 | William Henry Pinkney Phyfe - 1908 - 776 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." WILLIAM HENRY P. PHYFE. NEW YORK, March 12, 1889. CONTENTS. PREFACE 5 THE SOUNDS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,—... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pagina’s
...brain, Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. 719 Young: Love of Fame. Satire vii. Line 97 COMPARISONS. Comparisons are odorous. 720 Shaks. : Much... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 864 pagina’s
...four temptations beset the interpreters of Bible truth. One of these is apparent in those exegetes who "Each dark passage shun And hold their farthing candle to the sun." What is clear in itself needs no further explanation, 'fhe office of the exegete becomes a necessity... | |
 | Lope de Vega - 1920 - 224 pagina’s
...are not numerous, but unfortunately one is frequently reminded when using Kressner's edition " How commentators each dark passage shun And hold their farthing candle to the sun." Such is in brief the bibliographical history of Amar sin saber a quién. As previously noted, it was... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pagina’s
...13 Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How ach corrupted state. SAMUEL JOHNSON — London. L. 93. is Then in town let me l YOUNG— Lot« of Fame. Satire VII. L. 95. (See also BYRON) And then, exulting in their taper, cry,... | |
 | V. Venkatachellam Iyer - 1922 - 454 pagina’s
...Commentators are probably the same everywhere. And what the poet Young said of those in the west, that they ' each dark passage shun and hold their farthing candle to the Sun' is equally true of these in the East. Where the purport of a passage is not apparent, the commentary... | |
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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. 
