 ... 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.  The prose works of Charles Lamb - Pàgina 288per Charles Lamb - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Amherst College - 1851 - 86 pàgines
...matter to her if in forming those lines, he has consumed whole hours of patient, persevering labor, " When none but the still night, And his dumb candle saw his pinching throes." None at all ; but she stands ready, more likely, to pierce that interesting little volume with the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pàgines
...would catch the flame, the odour. It is a mockery, all that is reported of the influential Phœbus. J9G K K K!K!LC — Thinirs that were born, when none but the still night, And hi* dumb candle, saw his pinching throes.... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pàgines
...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....but the Still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinchmg ihrues." Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but for... | |
 | 1858 - 688 pàgines
...would catch the flame, the odor. It is a mockery, all that is reported of the influential Phoebus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light....furnish the images, the crude material ; but for the flue shapings, the true turning and filing, (as mine author bath it,) they must be content to hold... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 pàgines
...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 ;" and he closes with a lofty expression of his own studious habits and devotion to letters : — "... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1863 - 570 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pàgines
...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....daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the cmde material ; but for the fine shapings, the true turning and filing (as mine author hath it), they... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pàgines
...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....born, when none but the still night, And his dumb caudle, saw his pinching throes, MatTy, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pàgines
...would catch the name, 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....that were born, when none but the still night, And hia dumb candle, saw his pinching throes. Marry, daylight—daylight might furnish the images, the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pàgines
...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 bis dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." Marry, daylight... | |
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