 | 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 - Decision making - 1833 - 308 pages
...Phoebus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light. They are abstracted works — " Tilings that were born, when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but for the fine shapings,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...influential Phoebus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light. They are abstracted works — " Things that were born, when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but for the fine shapings,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...influential Pheebus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light. They are abstracted works — " Things that were born, when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but for the fine shapings,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...influential Phosbus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light. They are abstracted works — " Things that were born, when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images-, the crude material ; but for the fine shapings,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...influential Phcebus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light. They are abstracted works-^ " Things that were born, when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but for the fine shapings,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...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 — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but for the fine shapings,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...influential Fhoebus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light. They are abstracted works — " Things that were born, when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but for the fine shapings,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...influential Phoebus. No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light. They are abstracted works — ' Things that were born when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes.' Marry, daylight — daylight might furnish the images, the crude material ; but for the fine shapings,... | |
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Things that were born, when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes. 
