 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 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. YOUNU. One judges as the weather dictates, right The poem is at noon, and wrong at night; Another judges... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 808 pagina’s
...truth when he said in his haste that some succeeding muse should tell, among other matters — How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. The idea of holding a taper or candle to the sun, which constitutes in both cases the tropical splendour... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 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 ! ratuer give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researehes vex... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pagina’s
...ne'er provoke their spite, Depend upon't their judgment's right. eL JONATHAN S win— On Poetry. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun . e. Youuo — Love of Fame. Satire VII. Line 97. CRUELTY. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless... | |
 | Samuel Byron Brittan - 1882 - 570 pagina’s
..."— " Hark, from the Tombs ! "— Demonology of the Ancient Greeks and Modern Spiritualists. " How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun." — Young. Editor of the Van Buren Press : I AM indebted to one of your citizens for a copy of your... | |
 | Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pagina’s
...experience the deepest expositor in the things of God.— A'. Montgomery. COMMENTATORS.— The Aim of Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. — Dr. E. Young. COMMENTATORS.— The Bible in Relation to Commentators ore excellent, in general,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pagina’s
...And since you ne'er provoke their spite, Depend upon't their judgment's right. (Jonathan Suift. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. ( I oung. Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true ; But are not Critics to their judgment too?... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pagina’s
...tapers to the sun. 718 Crabbe : Parish Register. Ft. i. Line 83 COMMENTATORS— COMPENSATION. 79 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... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagina’s
...thousands takes a specious name, War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. Satire vll. Line 55. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.1 Line 97. Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener changed their principles... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1883 - 516 pagina’s
...passes over numberless real difficulties sicco pcde, after the fashion of editors in all ages who " Each dark passage shun And hold their farthing candle to the sun." It creates numberless difficulties which it does nothing to solve. It abandons the literal sense for... | |
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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. 
