 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...strain, in which the Muse shall tell How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun, How tortur'd texts to speak our sense are made, And ev'ry vice is to the scripture laid. How misers... | |
 | Edward Young - 1805 - 230 pages
...strain, in which the Muse shall tell How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. How tortur'd texts to speak our sense are made, And ev'ry vice is to the Scripture laid. How misers... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...future strain, in whichtheMuse shajjttfl How sciencedwindles, and how volumes swell; How commentators that hides. B. Who suffer 'dthus, inert- charity ihould own, Mus ; How tortur'd texts to speak our sense aremadr, And ev'ry vice is to the scripture laid ; How miserssqueczeayoungvolum... | |
 | John Poole - 1810 - 122 pages
...HAMLET TRAVESTJE. ANNOTATIONS DR. JOHNSON, GEORGE STEEVENS, ESQ. AND OTHER COMMENTATORS. Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun* YoDNG. ANNOTATIONS. ACT THE FIRST. (a) My eye and Tommy. THIS is rather an obscure phrase. I suspect... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...future strain, in which the Muse shall tell How science dwindle!, and how column swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the Sun. How tortur'd texts to speak our sense are made, And every vice is to the Scripture laid. How miners... | |
 | John Poole - 1811 - 140 pages
...AFTER THB HANNIR OF DR. JOHNSON, AND GEORGE STEEVENS, ESQ. AND THX VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. ANNOTATIONS. ACT THE FIRST. (a) My eye and Tommy. THIS is rather an obscure phrase. I suspect the author... | |
 | John Poole - 1811 - 138 pages
...AFTER THE MANNER OF DR. JOHNSON, AND GEORGE STEEVENS, ESQ. AND TUX VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. . Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. ANNOTATIONS. ACT THE FIRST. (a) My eye and Tommy. THIS is rather an obscure phrase. I suspect the author... | |
 | John Poole - 1814 - 136 pages
...AFTER THE MANNER OF DR. JOHNSON, AND GEORGE STEEVENS, ESQ. AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. YODNG. 1 ANNOTATIONS. ACT THE FIRST. (a) — My eye and Tommy. THIS is rather an obscure phrase. I... | |
 | John Poole - 1817 - 136 pages
...THE MANNER OF DR. JOHNSON, AND GEORGE STEEVENS, ESQ. AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. —Commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. YOUNG. ANNOTATIONS. ACT THE FIRST. (a)— -My eye and Tommy. THIS is rather an obscure phrase. I suspect the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pages
...future strain, in which the Muse shall tell How science dwindles, and how volumes swell How commentators each dark passage shun. And hold their farthing candle to the Sun. How tortur'd texts to speak our sense are made, And every vice is to the Scripture laid. How mistrs... | |
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How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the Sun. 
