 ... 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
 | Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 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 — "Thin And gs that were bom, when none but the still night, his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes."... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pàgines
...would catch the flame, the odour. It is a mockery, all that is reported of the influential Phoebus. now and stdl night And his dumb candle uw his pinching throes " Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 472 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....Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, thfl crude material ; but for the fine shapings, the true turning and filing (as mine author hath it),... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pàgines
...liberal soul To rive his stained quill up to the back, And damn his long-watched 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 travails than their reeling claps. 1 1 Applauses.... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 pàgines
...liberal soul To rive his stained quill up to the back, And damn his long-watched 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 travails than their reeling claps.' i Applauses.... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 pàgines
...soul To rive his stained quill up to the back, And damn his long-watched labours to the fireThings 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.1 1 Applauses.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1881 - 582 pàgines
...certain nervous temperament oppressed by a sense of poverty and disadvantage. His works were evidently " Things that were born, when none but the still night And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." Great as his difficulties were, however, they were not to be compared with those endured by Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1907 - 264 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....night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." 16 Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but for the fine shapings,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 pàgines
...catch the flame, the odour. It is a mock- 2g ery, all that is reported of the influential Phoebus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light....night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes. JJQ Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material; but for the fine shapings,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1912 - 594 pàgines
...liberal soul To rive his stained quill up to the back, And damn his long-watched 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 travails than their reeling claps. This 'tis that... | |
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