 ... 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
 | Morse Shepard Allen - 1920 - 204 pàgines
...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 travails, than their reeling claps." 68 Thus... | |
 | Esther Cloudman Dunn - 1925 - 194 pàgines
...could roister at the Mitre, he could also, on returning home, write1 Things that were born when nought but the still night And his dumb candle saw his pinching throes. The various phases of existence assumed a pattern when reflected in his orderly mind, and the general... | |
 | 1926 - 412 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....none but the still night. And his dumb candle, saw bis pinching throes." Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 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....crude material; but for the fine shapings, the true meaning and filing (as mine author hath it), they must be content to hold their inspiration of the... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 pàgines
...maternal. In Poetaster's "apologetical dialogue," for instance, he represents his "longwatched labours" as "Things, that were born, when none but the still night, / And his dumb candle saw his pinching throes" (pp. 217-19). In the Cary-Morison ode, the turn of the infant of Saguntum, "half got out" but already... | |
 | Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1995 - 232 pàgines
...throes" (12). In Poetasters "apologeticall dialogue," Ben Jonson represents his "long-watched labors" as "Things, that were born, when none but the still night, / And his dumb candle saw his pinching throes" (217-19). In the CaryMorison ode the turn of the infant of Saguntum, "half got out" but already retreating... | |
 | George Bagshawe Harrison - 1999 - 436 pàgines
...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 merits a more crown Unto his travails than their reeling claps. Ueclarcih... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 2000 - 582 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 — 2I5 Were not his own free merit a more crown Unto his travails than their reeling claps. This 'tis... | |
 | 1882 - 708 pàgines
...desert." 3. " And could such spacious virtue find a grave Beneath the imposthumed bubble of a wave." 4. "Things that were born when none but the still night And his dumb candle saw his pinching throes." AA Athenaeum C!ub. JOAN OF ARC. — T shall feel extremely obliged to any reader of " N. & Q." who... | |
 | James Bednarz - 2001 - 358 pàgines
...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 travails than their reeling claps. (LL. 209-15) But... | |
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