 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...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 ev'ry vice is to the scripture laid. How misers... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1805 - 232 pages
...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 ev'ry vice is to the Scripture laid. How misers... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...strain ; Some future strain, in whichtheMuse shajjttfl How sciencedwindles, and how volumes swell; How nd ,the slave that hides. B. Who suffer 'dthus, inert- charity ihould own, Mus ; How tortur'd texts to speak our sense aremadr, And ev'ry vice is to the scripture laid ; How miserssqueczeayoungvolum... | |
 | John Poole - 1810 - 122 pages
...curtain falls. THE END OF HAMLET TRAVESTJE. ANNOTATIONS DR. JOHNSON, GEORGE STEEVENS, ESQ. AND OTHER COMMENTATORS. Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun* YoDNG. ANNOTATIONS. ACT THE FIRST. (a) My eye and Tommy. THIS is rather an obscure phrase. I suspect... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...strain. Some future strain, in which the Muse shall tell How science dwindle!, and how column 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 miners... | |
 | John Poole - English drama - 1811 - 140 pages
...STEEVENS, ESQ. AND THE FURIOUS COMMENTATORS. BY JOHN POOLE, ESQ. • Quantum mutatus ab illo. VIBGIL. Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. YOUNG. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JM RICHARDSON, NO. 23, CORNHILL, OPPOSITE THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.... | |
 | John Poole - 1814 - 136 pages
...ANNOTATIONS UPON Camlet Craucgrte; / AFTER THE MANNER OF DR. JOHNSON, AND GEORGE STEEVENS, ESQ. AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. YODNG. 1 ANNOTATIONS. ACT THE FIRST. (a) — My eye and Tommy. THIS is rather an obscure phrase. I... | |
 | John Poole - English drama - 1816 - 146 pages
...GEO.STEEVENS, ESQ. AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. • BY JOHN POOLE. y Quantum mutatus al) illo. VIKGIL. Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the suu. YOUNG. SIXTH EDITION. LONDON: • H'.V:".' . >! FEINTED FOR JOHN MILLER, 25, BOW-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN;... | |
 | John Poole - 1817 - 144 pages
...ANNOTATIONS UPON Camlet Cratotte; AFTER THE MANNER OF DR. JOHNSON, AND GEORGE STEEYENS, ESQ. AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the mn. YOUNG. ANNOTATIONS. ACT THE FIRST. (a)— My eye and Tommy* THIS is rather an obscure phrase. I... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...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 mistrs... | |
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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. 
