 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - Liczba stron: 790
...liberal soul To rive his stained quill up to the back, And damn his long-watch'd labours to the fire; Things that were born when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes : Were not his own free merit a more crown Unto his tcavails than their reeling claps? This 'tis that... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - Liczba stron: 568
...liberal soul To rive his stained quill up to the back, And damn his long -watch' d labours to theJire; Things that were born when none but the still night And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes ; Were not his own free merit a more crown Unto his travails than their reeling claps. This 'tis that... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - Liczba stron: 486
...would catch the flame, the odour. It is a mockery, all that is reported of the influential Phoebus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light. They are abstracted works — " Things that were bom when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." Marry, daylight —... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - Liczba stron: 550
...scorn and contempt are exhausted to cover his opponents with infamy. He speaks of his own works as " Things that were born when none but the still night And his dumb candle say his pinching throes " ; and he closes with a lofty expression of his own studious habits and devotion... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - Liczba stron: 752
...scorn and contempt are exhausted to cover his opponents with infamy. He speaks of his own works as " Things that were born when none but the still night And his dumb candle say his pinching throes " ; and he closes with a lofty expression of his own studious habits and devotion... | |
 | 1901 - Liczba stron: 578
...that Goldsmith was born at Pallas, near Ballymahon, Longford, 10 Nov., 1728.1 QUOTATION WANTED.— Things that were born when none but the still night And his dumb caudle saw his pinching throes. HF [Ben Jonson, ' The Poetaster,' Act V., last scene.] PARISH REGISTERS.—An... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - Liczba stron: 488
...Hence, we may conclude that there is a certain reward to the author whose book contains " Things which were born when none but the still night And his dumb candle saw his pinching throes." Such books are justly called workt. But that author has doubly failed whose production has brought... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - Liczba stron: 412
...scorn and contempt are exhausted to cover his opponents with infamy. He speaks of his own works as " Things that were born when none but the still night And his dumb candle saw his pinching throes ;J) and he closes with a lofty expression of his own studious habits and devotion to letters : —... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1851 - Liczba stron: 776
...unlighted halls, rich with truthful imaginings, mingled with his curious but thoughtful jests : — " Things that were born, when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." In truth, these dwellings, constructed with such laborious ingenuity in every district of Scotland,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1851 - Liczba stron: 788
...unligLted halls, rich with truthful imagining, mingled with his curious but thoughtful jests : — " ' Things that were born when none but the still night And his dumb candle saw bis pinching throes.' In truth, these dwellings, constructed with such laborious ingenuity in every... | |
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... to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writer digests his meditations. By the same light, we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour. 
