 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 sivua
...liberal soul To rive his stained quill up to the back, And dauin his long-watch'd labours to the fire; Things that were born when none but the still night,...lips, And apts me rather to sleep out my time, Than 1 would waste it in contemned strifes With these vile Ibides, these unclean birds, That make their... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 sivua
...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,...Were not his own free merit a more crown Unto his tcavails than their reeling claps? This 'tis that strikes me silent, seals my lips. And apts me rather... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 sivua
...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 - 1835 - 440 sivua
...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 - 1836 - 324 sivua
...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 - 1836 - 326 sivua
...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 - 326 sivua
...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 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 454 sivua
...still night, And the dumb candle, saw his pinching throes." And again, alluding to these mimics — " This 'tis that strikes me silent, seals my lips, And...would waste it in contemned strifes With these vile Ihides, these unclean hirds, That make their mouths their clysters, and still purge From their hot... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 sivua
...still night, And the dumb candle, saw his pinching throei." And again, alluding to these mimics — " This 'tis that strikes me silent, seals my lips, And...sleep out my time, Than I would waste it in contemned strife« With these vile Ibides, these unclean birds, That make their mouths their clysters, and still... | |
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Things that were born, when none but the still night, And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes. 
