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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. "
Dramatic and Prose Miscellanies: Lucianus redivivus: or, Dialogues ... - Page 96
by Andrew Becket - 1838
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The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts: In Three Volumes, Volume 1

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...
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The Poetical Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young: With the Life of ..., Volume 4

Edward Young - English poetry - 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...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 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...
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Hamlet Travestie: In Three Acts

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...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 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...
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Hamlet Travestie: In Three Acts, Volume 4, Issue 1

John Poole - English drama - 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...
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Hamlet travestie: with burlesque annotations

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...
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Hamlet Travestie: in Three Acts: With Burlesque Annotations, After the ...

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...
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Hamlet Travestie: In Three Acts, with Burlesque Annotations After the Manner ...

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...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 8

John Aikin - English poetry - 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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