... 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 - Page 288by Charles Lamb - 1836Full view - About this book
| Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 pages
...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 - 568 pages
...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 - 486 pages
...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 —... | |
| Electronic journals - 1901 - 578 pages
...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 - Conduct of life - 1850 - 488 pages
...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 - American literature - 1851 - 412 pages
...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 - Archaeology - 1851 - 776 pages
...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 - 788 pages
...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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